TESSENKAI Regular Performance in September 2024/09/13(Fri)

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TESSENKAI Sponsored Performance

TESSENKAI Regular Performance in September

銕仙会（てっせんかい）主催公演

銕仙会定期公演〈9月〉

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Noh play Tatsuta by Shimizu Kanji

Kyogen play Chrysanthemum Flower by Nomura Mansai

Noh play Love Heavy Load by Katayama Kuroemon

Tatsuta

A traveling monk who has traveled around the country comes to the Tatsuta River in Yamato Province. A shrine maiden appears and guides the monk to a sacred tree that is in full autumn color among the winter-withered trees, and reveals that she is the deity Tatsutahimegami, before disappearing into the palace.

When Tatsutahimegami appears in a divine form, she admires the beauty of the autumn leaves on Mount Tatsuta and performs a night kagura dance...

This Noh play is full of emotion and depicts the world of waka poetry and the Age of the Gods, with the sacred tree filled with colorful autumn leaves as its symbol.

Chrysanthemum Flower

When Tarokaja, out sightseeing in the capital, walks down the street with a chrysanthemum flower in his hair, a beautiful lady who sees him composes a poem. In response, the lady takes a liking to him because of the elegant poem he writes in reply, and is invited to a banquet in Gion, but...

Love's Heavy Burden

Upon hearing that Yamashina Shoji, an old man who guards the chrysanthemums, is secretly in love with the Empress, a vassal of Emperor Shirakawa summons him. He is told that if he carries this burden and walks around the garden a hundred times, a thousand times, the Empress will appear. However, Shoji is unable to lift the heavy burden, and in despair, he rages and dies of rage against the Empress.

Soon, the ghost of Shoji appears, and he expresses his resentment at the Empress for toying with his unrequited love for a man of a different social status, and he blames her...

This Noh play vividly depicts the old man's obsession with love by likening his love to a burden.

※Please apply for U25 tickets by phone (03-3401-2285).

※Due to unforeseen circumstances, the program and performers may change without prior notice.

*Entry and exit to the audience seats may be restricted during the performance.

*Any behavior that may cause inconvenience to other customers, as well as the bringing in of dangerous items and alcoholic beverages, are strictly prohibited.

*Please turn off any devices that emit sound or light, such as mobile phones, during the performance as they may interfere with the performance.

*Tickets cannot be canceled, exchanged for other performances, or refunded, except in the case of cancellation of the performance due to force majeure such as natural disasters.

[Performance website]http://www.tessen.org/schedule/regular/2024reg09

Noh: Tatsuta Kagura

First shite: Priestess Shimizu Kanji
Second shite: Tatsuta Himegami 〃
Waki Traveling Monk Seigo Mikuriya
Waki Traveling Monk Eiji Norihisa
Same Same Aoi Watanabe
Ai Villager Hiroji Fukada

Flute Tomoko Hattanda
Small Drum Yoshibei Hayashi
Large Drum Keinosuke Okura
Taiko Yuichiro Hayashi

Yasumitsu Kobayakawa Osamu Kobayakawa
Kenichi Aoki Minoru Shibata
Folk singers Masashi Nomura Takao Nishimura
Masaichiro Izumi Hisashi Uzawa

Guardian Kengo Tanimoto
Hikaru Uzawa

〈10 minute break〉

Kyogen: Chrysanthemum Flower

Shite: Taro Kaja Nomura Mansai
Assistant: Takano Kazunori

Guardian: Naito Ren

Noh: The Burden of Love

First shite: Shoji Yamashina Kuroemon Katayama
Second shite: The ghost of Shoji 〃
Tsure no Nyogo Kitanami Takahiro
Waki no Subordinate Fukuo Kazuyuki
Ai no Servant Nomura Yuki

Flute Takahiro Fujita
Shinkuro Kanze
Otsuzumi Kazuyuki Haraoka
Taiko 三島元太郎

小早川康充長山桂三
小早川泰輝馬野正基
地謡安藤貴康浅井文義

Guardian Tetsunojo Kanze
Jiichi Asami