Shikisanbanのソースを表示

しきさんばん　[[式三番]]
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=Noh Kyogen=
[[Category:noh|title or Romoaji]
===Ritual preparation before the performance===
Traditionally the actors go through a period of abstention prior to the performance. On the day, the Okina and Sambasō masks are set up on an altar in the backstage area and given offerings of sake and salt. The performers gather in front of this altar and drinking from one cup passed around join in harmony.

===Roles===
Men bako, mask bearer, dressed in [[kamishimo]]

Senzai 千歳, the purifier, unmasked, dressed in matched [[hitatare]] [[直垂]] suit with a design of abroken ice  pattern, cranes, and turtoises.

Okina, benevolent old man played by the shite actor wearing a white-faced Okina (Hakushiki-jō) mask, Okina [[kariginu]] [[狩衣]], [[sashinuki]] [[指貫]], Okina [[eboshi]] [[烏帽子]], and Okina fan.

Sanbasō, old man of fertility played by a kyōgen actor wearing a dark-faced [[Sanbasō]] [[三番叟]] (Kokushiki-jō [[黒式尉]]) mask, dark matched hitatare suit with design of cranes, tortoises, and pines.

http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/th_image/PB/arc/Prints/arcUP/arcUP1493.jpg

Woodblock print of the masks of Okina and Sanbasō above, artist unknown,1911. (Below are Kojo, an old man, and uba, an old woman.

https://data.ukiyo-e.org/ritsumei/images/arcUP1493.jpg

===Summary===
After the mask bearer brings out the box containing the mask, the shite player comes out, unmaksed, and bows at the front of the stage. Then Senzai purifies the stage area by marking the corners with stamps and sleeve manipulations. During this time the mask is placed on the shite's face. After Senzai has finished, Okina stands at center stage and sings of the boundless, booming waterfall, of the tortoise, crane, and of the blessings of the deities. To instrumental music with three [[kotsuzumi]] [[小鼓]]drummers, the masked shite slowly goes to the down stage right corner then the down stage left corner, then center stage, where he flips the left sleeve over his head and covers his face with the open fan. This represents harmony of heaven, earth and man. The shite praises long life and then removes the Okina mask and exits.The stick drum （[[ōtsuzumi]] [[大鼓]]) joins the instrumentalists and the kyōgen actor performs two dances, mominodan (unmasked) and suzunodan (masked). Mominodan, like Senzai's dance, serves to purify the stage and awaken the earth god with strong stanmps and flying leaps. For suzunodan, Sambasō holds a stick with jingle bells and shakes it towards the ground as if planting seeds and encouraging their growth. (MB)

http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/th_image/PB/marega/MM0617/MM0617_01.jpg

Woodblock print of Okina by Tsukioka Kōgyo, Nōgaku zukai, 1897    https://data.ukiyo-e.org/ritsumei/images/arcUP0842.jpg

http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/th_image/PB/arc/Prints/arcUP/arcUP1464.jpg

Woodblock print of Sambasō, artist unknown, 1911,  
https://data.ukiyo-e.org/ritsumei/images/arcUP1464.jpg

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