Takemoto Gidayū

Takemoto Gidayu (Japanese竹 本 义 太 夫, * 1651 in Tennoji, † October 18, 1714 in Osaka ) was a Japanese singer Jōruri ( tayu ), founder of a Bunraku theater and founder of the musical style called after him Gidayu - bushi.

Life

Takemoto Gidayu was the son of a farmer from the village near Tennoji Osaka. As a musician and singer, he became a student of Kiyomizu Rihei and initially took the name Kiyomizu Gorobei, then the name Kiyomizu Ridayū. He began with a performance of musical narratives in the puppet theaters of Kamigata region, including in Kyoto as assistant to the Jōruri singer Kaganojō Uji ( Uji also Kidayū ). Under the influence of Uji Kaganojō and the singer Inoue Harimanojō he developed his own distinctive vocal style, named after him Gidayu - bushi. A first attempt to set up their own puppet theater in Kyoto, failed. After a few years he spent with performances in the country, he changed his name to Takemoto Gidayu and founded in 1684 the Bunraku Theater Takemoto - Dotonbori entertainment district of Osaka. A year later, he was regarded as the most important Jōruri singer of the region before Uji Kaganojō.

The success of the theater lasted years, especially since Takemoto, could win as an author of the most famous playwright of his time, Chikamatsu Monzaemon. 1686 wrote this for the Takemoto -za the piece Shusse Kagekiyo, is considered the first significant piece of Bunraku theater. Shortly after the beginning of the 18th century was Take Motos theater close to bankruptcy. Rescued it was Chikamatsu piece Sonezaki Shinju, which became a great success in 1703 and was performed for 17 months continuously. After Chikamatsu could be won as a staff writer for the theater, it experienced a new peak, which in addition to singing Gidayūs also the shamisen game contributed Takezawa Genemons and puppetry Tatsumatsu Hachirōbeis. Takemoto, who called himself since 1701 Takemoto Chikugonojō, presented in 1705, the management of the theater to Takeda Izumo I. in order to concentrate entirely on vocals can.

Swell

  • William E. Deal: Handbook to life in medieval and early modern Japan, revised edition Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780195331264, p 280
  • Samuel L. Head: New Kabuki Encyclopedia. A Revised Adaptation of Kabuki Jiten. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut and London, 1997, ISBN 0-313-29288-4, pp. 48, 124 f and 639
  • Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Donald Keene ( translator's ): Four major plays, Columbia University Press, 1961, ISBN 9780231085533, p 4
  • Theater director
  • Singer
  • Born in 1651
  • Died in 1714
  • Man
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