contributor
26,979
edits
Changes
no edit summary
*''Debut: [[1782]]''
*''Other Names'': 女忠臣蔵 ''(onna chuushingura)''
*''Japanese'': 加賀見山旧錦絵 ''(kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e)''
''Kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e'', popularly known as ''Onna Chûshingura'', or "Women's [[Kanadehon Chushingura|Chûshingura]]," is a [[kabuki]] & [[ningyo joruri|bunraku]] play about ladies-in-waiting seeking blood revenge against someone who shamed their mistress so much that the mistress committed suicide.
The play is based on a historical event which took place in [[1723]]. A lady-in-waiting was so humiliated by a more senior lady-in-waiting that she committed suicide; Yamaji, a maidservant to the woman who killed herself, then avenged her mistress by killing the senior lady-in-waiting.
==References==
*"[http://www.glopad.org/pi/ja/record/piece/1000825 Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki-e, Kabuki]." Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD).
*Mills, D.E. "Kataki-uchi: The Practice of Blood Revenge in Pre-Modern Japan." ''Modern Asian Studies'' 10:4 (1976). pp533.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Poetry and Theater]]
*''Other Names'': 女忠臣蔵 ''(onna chuushingura)''
*''Japanese'': 加賀見山旧錦絵 ''(kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e)''
''Kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e'', popularly known as ''Onna Chûshingura'', or "Women's [[Kanadehon Chushingura|Chûshingura]]," is a [[kabuki]] & [[ningyo joruri|bunraku]] play about ladies-in-waiting seeking blood revenge against someone who shamed their mistress so much that the mistress committed suicide.
The play is based on a historical event which took place in [[1723]]. A lady-in-waiting was so humiliated by a more senior lady-in-waiting that she committed suicide; Yamaji, a maidservant to the woman who killed herself, then avenged her mistress by killing the senior lady-in-waiting.
==References==
*"[http://www.glopad.org/pi/ja/record/piece/1000825 Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki-e, Kabuki]." Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD).
*Mills, D.E. "Kataki-uchi: The Practice of Blood Revenge in Pre-Modern Japan." ''Modern Asian Studies'' 10:4 (1976). pp533.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Poetry and Theater]]