Sukeroku - Wikipedia
Sukeroku (助六由縁江戸桜) is a play in the Kabuki repertoire, and one of the celebrated Kabuki Jūhachiban ("Eighteen Great Plays"). The play is known in English as The Flower of Edo. The play is super strongly associated with the Ichikawa Danjūrō family of actors.
Sukeroku - SamuraiWiki - Samurai Archives
2016年11月20日 · Sukeroku is among the most popular and famous of kabuki plays. Closely associated with the Ichikawa Danjûrô line of actors, it is counted among the Kabuki Jûhachiban. The story centers on Sukeroku, a samurai and otokodate, a prominent patron of the Yoshiwara, and especially of Agemaki, the top courtesan of the Miura-ya teahouse.
Sukeroku - Japanese Wiki Corpus
As the sophisticated ultimate Edo culture that embodied 'Iki', the ideal chic or stylish Eco culture, "Sukeroku" had a decisive impact on the future of Japanese culture.
The Flower of Edo EXPLAINED・Sukeroku (1713) - YouTube
Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura ("Sukeroku, The Flower of Edo") is a masterpiece of early Edo sewamono drama, first performed in 1713 by Ichikawa Danjūrō II and refined into its final...
Sukeroku Yukari no Edozakura | Kabuki Plays | INVITATION TO …
The story of this play concerns Soga no Goro Tokimune, who has become a kyokaku (a self-styled chivalrous person) known as Hanakawado no Sukeroku, and goes in and out of the Yoshiwara red-light district in search of a sword called Tomokirimaru, a treasure of the Genji clan.
SUKEROKU - KABUKI 21
Sukeroku tells Shinbê that he believes Ikyû must have the sword since he is the only person who has refused to fight. He then gives a lesson in how to insult strange samurai to provoke them. They try it out on some innocent passers-by and together make them crawl between their legs.
Sukeroku’s Double Identity - The Dramatic Structure of Edo …
The aim of this book is to show that seemingly illogical double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku is a surviving element of what was once a complex and coherent structure based on a traditional performance calendar.
When Sukeroku was performed for the first time by Ichikawa Danjuro II in 1713, the play was new to the Edo kabuki stage, thus fulfilling a primary requirement of an innovation.
Sukeroku’s Double Identity | University of Michigan Press
The author concludes that Sukeroku's double identity gave Edo audiences a hero who was an idealization of the contemporary Tokugawa townsman and at the same time a transformation of a samurai god-hero of the past.
Sukeroku | Japan Module
One of the celebrated kabuki pieces known as the kabuki jūhachiban ("18 kabuki plays" [see "Ichikawa Danjuro"]). Popularly called Sukeroku, it is a historical play by Tsūchi Hanemon (dates unknown) and was first performed in 1713.