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Title
Miwa 三輪
Creator
Seibi Shoten
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1936
Identifier
20180614-kogyo-0202
Description
Summary of the play: A woman who regularly brings aniseed water to the priest Gempin in Miwa one day asks him for a cloak to protect her from the autumn cold. This he gives her, and when he asks her where she lives, learns that her home is beside the two cryptomeria trees not far away. Shortly afterwards, a villager tells him that his cloak has been left hanging on one of the branches there. When the priest goes to see, the god Miwa no Myōjin appears in the form of a woman and tells him an ancient legend about a woman whose husband visited her only at night. Wishing to find out where he came from, she fixed the end of a length of thread to the hem of his gown and followed it after his return, only to find that it ended at the foot of the cryptomeria where they now stand. The god then performs the kind of dance that was given in the Divine Age to entice the goddess Amaterasu from the cave where she had hidden herself, and tells the priest that story too. ©P.G. O’Neill, A guide to nō. Hinoki Shoten, 1964. Category: Miscellaneous (Fourth)
Type
still image
Genre
prints (visual works)
color prints (prints)
woodcuts (prints)
color woodcuts (prints)
nishiki-e
Subject
Goddesses
Priests
Source
Nōga taikan 能画大鑑
Collection
Kōgyo: The Art of Noh
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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