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Revision as of 06:52, 20 September 2021
Kumasaka (The Robber) is a Noh play from the 15th century attributed by Arthur Waley to Zenchiku Ujinobu, about the notable Heian period bandit Kumasaka no Chohan.
Legendary background
The samurai hero, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, known in his early life as Ushiwaka or Young Bull, supposedly had a series of David and Goliath encounters in his youth, one of which concerned a bandit attack led by the robber (sometimes identified as the slayer of his mother), Kumasaka.[1]
Plot
Literary associations
- The play has been seen as a retrospective telling of the last part of the genzai-mono (real-time) play,Eboshi-ori.[2]
- Basho referenced the pine tree associated with Kumasaka in a renga: "a pine in memory/of a bandit/broken by the wind.[3]
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