Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees ・Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (1748)
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- In this video, we take a look at the eleven scenes most often performed from the epic jidaimono play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura ("Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees"), written in 1747 for the bunraku puppet theatre by the playwrights Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I, the same team that produced Kanadehon Chūshingura and Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, the other two classical masterpieces of the kabuki repertoire.
This covers four of the five acts of the original play. The missing first one, including the scenes Ōuchi, Kitasaga, Kawagoe Jōshi and Heisoto, is very rarely performed nowadays. You can read the plot of this act here: www.kabuki21.com/ysz.php There is also a wonderful English translation of the complete bunraku script by Stanleigh H. Jones Jr., in his book "Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater".
If you want to learn a bit more about Senbon Zakura, I have a few other videos covering some aspects in more detail:
Acting Traditions for the Role of Tadanobu: • Fox Flames and Cherry ...
Bunraku and Kabuki, a Comparison of the Torii Mae scene: • Bunraku and Kabuki, a ...
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:06 Part 1
04:47 Part 2
15:13 Part 3
19:26 Part 4
26:42 Part 5
36:28 Part 6 - Розваги
I hope you all have a wonderful day, and enjoy this oversized video, compiling and rearranging the Senbon Zakura videos from 1 year ago! Also, let me know what plays you would like to see covered in the future.
I’ve been fascinated by Kabuki Ever since seeing my grandfathers kabuki woodblock prints he brought back from Japan in the 1950s. I’ve watched Kabuki but could never follow the intricate story lines. So happy to find this beautiful channel which is so well edited and designed and finally be able to comprehend the story and the characters. I will explore your channel and hopefully there is a episode explaining the astonishing costumes and makeup. Loved the Fox story. I would like to have been one of the magical, little foxes. Thank you.
Doumo arigatou gozaimasu for taking such care to teach us this wonderful artistic culture of Japan.
Thank you for making this artform accessible to all xxx
This is nothing less than a gift !!! What a wonderful video! I always look forward to your amazing work!
A wonderful gift, spectacular in every way! And an especial thank you for the subtitles so I could follow along and enjoy it even more…thank you so much!
This is excellent, especially the quick change and the mie that follows.
Thank you for this wonderful video it was an absolute delight to watch thank you!!
Thank you for an excellent video! I thoroughly enjoyed it. 👏👏👏👏👏
This is a wonderful video as a Kabuki fan myself 🙏 Thank you so much 💖 Not gonna lie though, I actually felt really bad for Gonta 😭
Truly remarkable! Great work! ❤️
There's no such thing as oversized video when we're talking about Kabuki play 🙃
Here here! 💯
Beautiful
This is available in subtitles on another site here
Excellent video as always bro. This Kabuki play (Yoshitsune Zenbon Sakura) is for me one of the best plays ever created and one of the most intriguing as well (especially with a strong and enigmatic character like Taira no Tomomori). But some doubts came to my mind:
1. I've seen a lot of people say that Yoshitsune Zenbon Sakura is a Kabuki play associated with the Otowaya acting house. That is true? Why do many people associate this play with the troupe led by Onoe Kikugorō VII?
2. I saw that of the most recent generation of Kabuki actors, the only actors who have ever played Taira no Tomomori were Kataoka Ainosuke VI (there's a selfie of him dressed as Taira no Tomomori on his Ameblo blog), Onoe Kikunosuke V (there's a photo of him dressed as Taira no Tomomori backstage of the play on his Instagram) and Onoe Matsuya II (there's a photo of him dressed as Taira no Tomomori backstage of the play on his Ameblo blog). Besides the three, is there any other actor who has played Taira no Tomomori?
1. It is mainly because Kikugorō V and Kikugorō VI helped greatly in shaping the acting for some of the main characters in the play. This is particularly clear in the case of Tadanobu and Gonta, which most actors perform today using the Kikugorō kata. Other families have strong ties to the play as well, such as the Omodakaya, but the perception of such a things change over time.
2. Danjūrō XIII has played it several times, and Shōroku IV, Kankurō VI, Shidō II, Kōshirō X and Shikan VIII have all attempted it once or twice each.
@@KabukiInDepth Speaking of Omodakaya, there's a video from 1998 with Ichikawa Ennosuke III at what appears to be a conference (ua-cam.com/video/1j62cbedgQM/v-deo.html) and at the beginning of the video there's a kabuki actor who does the mie that Ichikawa Danjuro XII used to do and what Ichikawa Danjuro XIII usually does after their opening speeches. But if you look at it, it doesn't look like it's Danjuro XIII: in fact, the actor who appears in the video (from minute 1:02) looks a lot like Nakamura Shido II (both by voice and by physical traits). Do you know if this actor who appears in the minute mentioned above is really Nakamura Shido II?
@@maviojordangomesrosa2467 I can read kanji so I can confidently tell you that he is not Shido, his name is Okada Shimpei. I've done a bit research on him and he was a graduate from the National Theatre of Japan's kabuki training program. He joined Ennosuke's troupe as a background actor. It seems he stopped his acting career after the 90s because his name was not mentioned in performance database anymore. The video on the other hand is part of Ennosuke III's kabuki workshop. People appear in the video are not professional actors, they are kabuki lovers who attended Ennosuke's workshop.
@@maviojordangomesrosa2467With that being said, he really shouldn't be performing the ''nirami'' mie. This special mie can only be performed by Danjuro line actors (I believe Sadanji was granted the permission to perform nirami during the name succession), even Ennosuke himself is not qualified.
There used to be a wonderful video of this play where there was an english voice over with explanations. Would anyone know where to find this?
I’m looking for it myself. I don’t think it exists anymore
Itsc😂awesome Tales Of Genji is an audio book Almost nine hours long. Genji Monogotari has it chaptered
Thank you for the wonderful video! 😊 How about covering Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame and Onatsu Kyoran sometime in the future?
Also I have a question; I saw a trailer of Furu Amerika ni Sode wa Nurasaji (sorry if I spelled it wrong) on Shochiku channel and I got confused if it is a Kabuki play or not? It looks like a modern play to me with Kabuki elements.
Great suggestions! As for the play that you mention, it was originally a modern play written in the 1970s, belonging to the shingeki or "New Theatre". It was adapted to kabuki year later, and the great onnagata Bandō Tamasaburō V seems to have grown fond of the play, as he has staged it many times over the year. So, yes, it is a technically kabuki play, although very different from traditional ones, and much closer to regular modern theatre.
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It's so interesting that Benkei and Tadanobu are played using the Aragoto style in the first scene, but they are completely different the next time we see them. I don't really understand this choice, especially with Tadanobu who is characterized in the rest of the play as kind and playful rather than aggressive. From watching your video on the Bunraku version I have to say the way Tadanobu was characterized in the first scene felt more effective. How did this kata originate? Is the first scene all that remains of some old kata that might have used more Aragoto in the other scenes?
Also notice his fox ears.😅 Playful - has ears. Aggressive - no ears
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Can anyone tell me why all the kabuki plays paint the minamoto as the villains and the heike/taira as heroes?
Cause Minamoto was not legal authority, but Taira was. I suppose Minamoto were dictators, (except Yoshitsune). Taira also did not killed young Yoshitsune and his bro in childhood i think this shows their humanity
@@arisha_bit no, that doesn't make sense, the taira and minamoto were done by the time these kabuki plays were written
@@Amalvipls but it based on real events.!
@@arisha_bit can you stop having a stroke and write coherently about why people in the 18th century depicted a clan from 700 years ago as heroes and another as villains
Minamoto Yoshitsuni is the goat samurai
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