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A performance of Japanese traditional nō theater entitled "Shōjō Wine Spirit (Midare)" by the Hōshō Theater of Tokyo will take placeat the National Theateron June 18 at 6 pm .
The show was staged and produced by PJAIT lecturerDr. Jakub Karpoluk.
Funds raised from the purchase of tickets will be used to help Ukraine. The coordinator of these activities is Polish Humanitarian Action.
Ducho wine Shōjō (Midare)
Author unknown
translation: Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska
Actors:
Takeda Takashi (lead actor shite, Hōshō school) - Spirit of Shōjō wine
Takeda Isa (lead actress shite, Hōshō school) - Spirit of Shōjō wine
Noguchi Yasuhiro (second waki actor, Shimogakari Hōshō school) - Kōfū
Ōtomo Jun (Hōshō school) - kōken (aist master)
Kanamori Yoshimitsu (Hōshō school) - chorus
Kawase Takashi (Hōshō school) - choir
Tatsumi Kazuma (Hōshō school) - choir
Kidani Tetsuya (Hōshō school) - choir
Ueno Yoshihiro (Hōshō school) - choir
Musicians:
Takamura Yutaka (Issō school) - nōkan flute
Iitomi Yoshiaki (Ōkura school) - kotsuzumi drum
Tsukuda Yoshitarō (Takayasu school) - ōtsuzumi drum
Nakata Kazuha (Konparu school) - taiko drum
Foreword:
Jakub Karpoluk
Shōjō Wine Spirit
Once upon a time in China, in the village of Yōzu, at the foot of Mount Kanekin-zan, there lived a man named Kōfū. He was a good farmer and took great care of his parents so fate favored him. One night as he slept, in a dream a mysterious voice advised him to sell the wine he was making at the Yōzu market, and he would become rich. Kōfū did indeed start selling wine and began to do well. One boy-faced customer regularly bought Kōfū's wine; he drank a lot, but never got drunk and his face never turned red. Impressed by his strong head, Kōfū asked him to tell him his name. The mysterious visitor revealed to him that he was in fact not a human but a Shōjō, living in the Yangtze River. Before leaving, he asked his host to bring him his wine at the river and he would receive a precious gift. Kōfū went to the Yangtze River, carrying the wine. After a while, the Spirit of Wine Shōjō emerged from the river in his true form - intoxicated and red in the face. Shōjō, dancing, drinking and singing, expressed his joy at meeting his friend Kōfū. In gratitude for the wine he received, he presented the man with a never-drying spell. Was it all just a dream? Kōfū wondered...The magical spell from which the wine continually poured was real, however, thanks to it the hero enjoyed prosperity forever more.
The author of the play is unknown; the drama is one of the oldest in the repertoire of nō theater; it is also a hiraki mono work - that is, an initiation ritual for the main shite actors. Artists from the Hōshō school will present Polish audiences with an extremely rarely performed version (known as kogaki) of the play Midare, subtitled Wagō (Harmony), in which two characters of the Shōjō Wine Spirit will appear on stage. The play belongs to the fifth group of dramas, the so-called kirinō, which according to tradition were staged last during gobandate programs consisting of five dramas
played in order.
Yakub Karpoluk
Nō - (能 - Japanese for skill, talent) is one of Japan's three classical theaters, along with acting kabuki and puppet bunraku, enjoying a documented history dating back to
in the 14th century. It is a poetic and musical theater. At its roots lie earlier forms of performance, Chinese and Japanese, sacred and secular, including: dengaku, sarugaku and kuse mai dances. The classical form of nō theater, originated during the lifetime of Zeami (1364? - 1444?), the progenitor of the Kanze family, and has survived to our time, subject, of course, to many transformations. Zeami - actor, playwright and author of theoretical treatises remains to this day, one of the most important lawmakers of the dramatic art of nō. In 2001, nō theater was declared a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Yakub Karpoluk
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