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Musumegonomi Ukina no Yokogushi

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【MUSUMEGONOMIUKINANOYOKOGUSHI】

Kirare Otomi, a representative Akuba role, in “Musume Gonomi Ukina no Yokogushi”. Sawamura Sojuro 9th as Otomi and Ichikawa Danshiro 4th as Yasuzo. January, 1992 at the National Theatre. （Y_E0100171000346）

It is a Sewamono play by Kawatake Mokuami premiered at Moritaza in 1864. This play is a Kakikae (rewritten)-Kyogen of “Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi”, and Otomi, who is slashed enough to have wounds over her entire body, appears as the leading character. Otomi is a typical “Akuba” role that started to appear at the end of the Edo period, and described as a person who commits an extortion of money or even murder for the sake of her lover.