Keisei-gai Kyogen
【傾城買狂言】
【KEISEIGAIKYOGEN】
It refers to the plays about the prostitutes and their customers at a red-light district during the Edo period. The name of the play is taken from the highest-ranked prostitutes who were called Keisei. This Kyogen is said to have carried on the style of the dance “tea-house play” in Okuni’s Kabuki. It was incorporated into O-ie sodo mono in Kamigata region during the Genroku period and was frequently performed. The style of Wagoto is said to have been created from the scene of Keisei-gai (buying the service of prostitutes).
