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''Ise Ondo'' is a summer play, both set during the summer and traditionally performed during the summer, when it is believed the chills the audience feels at the horror of the bloodbath will cool them off. Most of the characters wear summer ''[[yukata]]'', and visual and verbal references are made to the summer heat.

''Ise Ondo'' is a summer play, both set during the summer and traditionally performed during the summer, when it is believed the chills the audience feels at the horror of the bloodbath will cool them off. Most of the characters wear summer ''[[yukata]]'', and visual and verbal references are made to the summer heat.

Like many ''sewamono'', the play is based on a real incident, in this case a mass murder which occurred in the fifth month that same year. A local doctor by the name of Magofuku Itsuki (age 27), sparked by jealousy, went on a drunken killing spree in the Aburaya, a local Furuichi brothel. It ended with three dead and six wounded; among those killed was a maid by the name of Oman (note that the chief maid or proprietess of the Aburaya in the play is named Manno). Itsuki committed suicide two days later at the home of his uncle, a low-ranking Ise shrine priest. His lover, the courtesan Okon (age 16 at the time), died of illness at age 49.<ref>"[http://www.dairinji.com/abura.htm Aburaya sôdô]." Dairinji Homepage. 2008. Accessed 22 November 2010.</ref>

Like many ''sewamono'', the play is based on a real incident, in this case a mass murder which occurred on the 4th day of the 5th month, that same year. A local doctor by the name of Magofuku Itsuki (age 27), sparked by jealousy, went on a drunken killing spree in the Aburaya, a local Furuichi brothel. It ended with three dead and six wounded; among those killed was a maid by the name of Oman (note that the chief maid or proprietess of the Aburaya in the play is named Manno). Itsuki committed suicide two days later at the home of his uncle, a low-ranking Ise shrine priest. His lover, the courtesan Okon (age 16 at the time), died of illness at age 49.<ref>"[http://www.dairinji.com/abura.htm Aburaya sôdô]." Dairinji Homepage. 2008. Accessed 22 November 2010.</ref>

Though ''Ise Ondo'' is said to have been written in three days, making it an ''[[ichiyazuke]]'' or "pickled overnight" play, it in fact debuted roughly two and a half months after the incident, and after a [[jishibai|local rural theatre]] in Matsuzaka had already begun showing a play based on the event.

Though ''Ise Ondo'' is said to have been written in three days, making it an ''[[ichiyazuke]]'' or "pickled overnight" play, it in fact debuted roughly two and a half months after the incident, and after a [[jishibai|local rural theatre]] in Matsuzaka had already begun showing a play based on the event.