On the 27th, one day after the October Kabuki performance Senakiraku, the “Katobushi Opening 300th Anniversary Concert” was held at Kabukiza Theater day and night.
"Kato-bushi" is known for the fact that when the Ichikawa Muneke performs Kabuki 18th "Sukeroku Enen Edo Sakura", the amateur husband "Kato-Setsu Goren" will always appear in the curtain. However, this format has been established since the middle of the Edo period when Danjuro, the second generation premiered "Sukeroku". It is an event commemorating the 300th anniversary of Kyoho 2 (1717) that the first generation Kato Masumi divided from Edo Joruri's Hantayubushi and founded independently. The first Kato Masumi was a child of Tenmaya, a fish merchant in Nihonbashi, who emerged under the Edo Hantayu Gate and became independent. (I was absorbed in Joruri and crushed the shop...)
At the commemorative party, there is a one-day performance, and the audience seats are full of beautiful sisters and actors' faces, and visitors are dressed in gorgeous visiting clothes. The day part opens with "Matsunouchi", which was performed when he became independent 300 years ago. After Ebizo of the Ichikawa Soke family, who has been closely connected to Kato-bushi since the Edo period, two children, Reika-chan and Shogen-kun's dance "Ebi", were applauded just by appearance. The worried face of the guardian Ebizo is smiling. And "Matsuno Kotobuki Sanbaso" is a luxurious version of Gohachi Yoshida, Okina Kikugoro, Chitose Kikunosuke, Sanbaso is Ebizo. At the end of the daytime section is Ebizo-san in the dance "Sukeroku Place En Edo Sakura". On the usual stage, it is spectacular that "Kato Setsu Goren", which is invisible from the audience inside the lattice of Miuraya in Yoshiwara, is lined up with nearly 70 people with black crests on the stage. If you look closely at the program, all the appearances in the daytime were women, and all the Joruri people in the evening were men. The masters of Nihonbashi and Ginza may be inside.
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