Shibuya-Noh -First night-
(Noh performance / Kanze school)
Fri. July 26, 2024 at 18:30
Noh"JINEN KOJI"
main performer:Atsuo Kanze
commentary in Japanese: Naoki Kaneko
■Story
While the lay priest Jinen is preaching at the Ungo-ji temple,a young girl comes and gives him a robe as a gift. In a letter accompanying it she explains that she has sold herself to buy the robe in order to have the priest say a mass for her dead parents. As Jinen is reading this, the men who have bought the girl come and take her away. Much moved by this, the preacher hurries after them when he is told what has happened, and demands that they release the girl. This they at first refuse to do,but after Jinen haas entertained them with all manner of songs and dances, they agree to give the girl up.