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Curtain time:
12:00 noon
12:00 noon and 5:00 PM (6th (Fri), 13th (Fri) and 20th (Fri))
*No performance on 18th (Thur) |
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KINMON GOSAN
NO KIRI 【Ishikawa Goemon】
Earphone-Guide Commentator: Oshima and Dixon
This play is famous for the twenty-minute scene where the great thief
Ishikawa Goemon sits on the second floor of the gate of Nanzenji Temple
in Kyoto and admires the view, the realm that he wishes to control.
But under the gate is Mashiba Hisayoshi (the kabuki name for Hideyoshi)
the ruler of Japan, disguised as a humble Buddhist pilgrim. In that
scene, this key confrontation is a crystallization of the stylized
beauty of kabuki. But this scene and this confrontation are just one
short part of a very long play full of intrigue and spectacle.
Ishikawa Goemon is not just a great thief, he is actually from China
and his Chinese father has disguised himself as Japanese and gained
a position of great responsibility in the Japanese court. But he is
unmasked and his plots revealed and he commits suicide. However, Goemon
continues his father’s quest to rule Japan.
Starring Nakamura Hashinosuke as Goemon and Nakamura Senjaku as Mashiba
Hisayoshi. |
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