Sesshu Gappo ga Tsuji
【摂州合邦辻】
【SESSHUGAPPOGATSUJI】
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Tamategozen confessing the truth in “Sesshu Gappo ga Tsuji”. Kataoka Nizaemon 13th as Gappo, Nakamura Utaemon 6th as Tamategozen, Kamimura Kichiya 5th as Otoku, and Nakamura Shikan 7th as Shuntokumaru. October, 1987 at the National Theatre. （Y_E0100144000006）
It was premiered as a Ningyo-Joruri (puppet play) in 1773 in Osaka. At the end of the Edo period the play was turned into Kabuki. Today, “Gappo Anjitsu no ba” is often performed.
Tamategozen, a wife in Takayasu family, appears as the leading role. The story of the play is that she determines to devote herself into fake love to save his son-in-law Shuntokumaru from the family’s internal affairs. One highlight is a scene in which Tamategozen tells the truth while gasping for breath, after stubbed by her father Gappo who has yet to know the true cause of her behavior.
