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.
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!
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 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1j62cbedgQM.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.
28:53-39:40: この部分が好きです！私はイタリア出身ですが、日本の歌舞伎が大好きです。素晴らしい踊りも好きです！😮😮🥲🥲 初音の太鼓、忠信が最後に狐に変装していたことが発覚、この事実に静御前が激怒…すごい！ 😮😮🥲🥲 理由は分かりませんが、おそらく初音ミクと中村獅童は、2016年の花くらべ千本桜の素晴らしい再現でベストを尽くしただけでしょう。源氏/平家一族の物語は、静御前が今若、乙若、牛若の3人の子供を連れて逃げるところから始まり、牛若は後に牛若丸となり、武蔵坊弁慶と手を組んで壇ノ浦の悲劇的な戦いで源氏/平家一族を倒すことになります😮😮🥲🥲 28:53-39:40: I like this part! I'm from Italy, but, i like japanese kabuki very much, including those amazing dances! 😮😮🥲🥲 The Hatsune drum, Tadanobu's final revalation of being a fox in disguise, the furious of Shizuka Gozen for this revelation... Wow! 😮😮🥲🥲 I don't know why, but, maybe, Hatsune Miku and Nakamura Shidou only give their best with their amazing rapresentation of the 2016 Hanakurabe Senbonzakura as the entire story of the Genji/Heikei Clan all starts with Shizuka Gozen escaping with 3 children, Imawaka, Otowaka and Ushiwaka which will later become Ushiwakamaru and the one that will allay with Musashibo Benkei to defeat this Genji/Heikei Clan in the tragic battle of Dan-No-Ura 😮😮🥲🥲
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.
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?
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 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
