Era | Event | Year | 年号 | 出来事 |
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Yoshinori 1429-1441 | Kanze Kojirō Nobumitsu born to Kanze Motoshige (On’ami). | 1435 | 永享七 | 観世小次郎信光生まれる |
On’ami offends Yoshinori but is pardoned quickly under the mediation of Akamatsu Mitsusuke (1381-1441), another military general. 1441 assasination of Yoshinori by Akamatsu. | 1437 | 永享九 | 観世大夫元重、将軍(義教)に叱責され、赤松満祐、観世の宥免を願い出て許された。 | |
Yoshiatsu | Zeami dies. | 1443 | 嘉吉三 | 世阿弥没す。 |
Yoshimasa 1449-1473 | Yoshimasa becomes the eighth shogun. Nobumitsu performed at the Palaceand received a fan from the cloistered emperor Go Hanazono takes place around this time. | 1449 | 宝徳一 | 足利義正、八代将軍となる。信光御所で大鼓を打ち、後花園天皇から賞讃の扇をもらう |
Ashikaga Yoshinori is murdered by Akamatsu Mitsusuke while watching On’ami’s noh performance. This event is known asKakitsu Rebellion | 1441 | 嘉吉一 | 足利義教、赤松満祐邸で観能中に暗殺される。嘉吉の乱。 | |
The Kanze troupe loses Yoshinori’s support and starts kanjin sarugaku noh. Income from this performance goes to the troupe instead of to public welfare, as the term “kanjin” originally meant. | 1450 | 宝徳二 | 観世座、義教の保護を失い、勧進猿楽を開始す。募られた金品の寄付(入場料)、勧進のためではなく、観世座の収益となる。 | |
Motoshige (On’ami) performsKan no Kōsō (Hoshi), Nobumitsu’s known first noh play | 1452 | 享徳一 | 春日若宮に「伊勢の御田・通盛・漢の高祖・松風村雨・泣不動・仏原」の六番を舞い。「漢の高祖」は信光の初作という。 | |
Motoshige retires as troupe leader, and changes his name to On’ami. His eldest son, Masamori, becomes Tayū (troupe leader) of the Kanze troupe. | 1457 | 長禄一 | 観世三郎元重出家して音阿弥と称す。観世正盛、大夫となる。 | |
A three day kanjin noh performance is held at the Tadasu River bank. Both On’ami and the new Tayū Masamori perform. | 1464 | 寛正五 | 観世大夫父子(大夫又三郎と父音阿弥)により、三日間の能が糺河原で催される。 | |
On’ami, Masamori, and Nobumitsu perform at the retired emperor’s palace, the first large-scale performance that has detailed documentation of Nobumitsu’s participation. | 1465 | 寛正六 | 後花園院の仙洞御所に参り、観世三父子に演能させる。信光の演能記 | |
The Ōnin Rebellion begins. On’ami dies | 1467 | 応仁一 | 応仁の乱始。二代目観世大夫だった音阿弥没す。 | |
Poet Shinkei (1406–1475) writes Hitorigoto, praising On’ami’s performing skill. | 1468 | 応仁二 | 連歌師心敬(1406-1475)、「ひとりごと」を写し、音阿弥は「今の世の最一の上手といへる」と評した。 | |
Masamori dies suddenly after a performance at the Muromachi military quarter. His son Yukishige succeeded as Tayū. | 1470 | 文明二 | 四世観世大夫又三郎、室町御所で演能し、帰宅後に頓死。子の之重継ぐ。 | |
It is believed that Nobumitsu assumes the Gakutō (Music Supervisor) position during a sarugaku noh performance at the Imperial Palace. | 1472 | 文明四年 | 中院宮遷猿楽の「楽頭観世三郎息代官」とあるのも信光のことかもしれない。 | |
Yoshihisa 1473-1489 | The four Yamato sarugaku noh troupes (Kanze, Konparu, Hoshō, and Kongō) boycott takigi noh performance at Kōfukuji (Kōfuku Temple) because the temple did not pay them promptly. | 1474 | 文明六 | 薪猿楽参勤の大和四座(観世、金春、宝生、金剛)粮米下給不足を理由で参勤を拒否。 |
Nobumitsu, still known as “On’ami’s youngest son,” performs at Kōfukuji. | 1475 | 文明七 | 観世信光、興福寺中院で六方衆主催の観世(故恩阿ミ末子として)能が催される。 | |
Nobumitsu and Masamori’s son, Yukishige, the official troupe leader, put on a three-day kanjin noh performance for the reconstruction of Seiganji. This is the first large scale noh performance after the Ōnin Rebellion. Ashikaga Yoshihisa and his mother, Hino Tomiko, are present. | 1478 | 文明十 | 信光と観世大夫、誓願寺辺で勧進猿楽を三日興行。応仁の乱以来の初大規模の猿楽。将軍義尚夫妻や、日野富子とも観能。 | |
Konparu Zenpō becomes Konparu Tayū. | 1480 | 文明一二 | 金春禅鳳、大夫を襲名。 | |
Nobumitsu and Yukishige perform noh at the military quarter of Ise Sadamune (1444-1509) | 1481 | 文明一三 | 伊勢貞宗邸に観世大夫・小次郎参り。 | |
Two Konparu waki performers, Hikichi Genshirō and Morikiku Yashichirō, are ordered by Yoshihisa to join the Kanze troupe. | 1483 | 文明一五 | 大御所義政、金春座の守菊弥七郎と日吉源四郎を観世座に加入させることを観世大夫(之重)に命じる。 | |
Nobumitsu remarries. | 1487 | 長享一 | 信光再婚。 | |
Nagatoshi, Nobumitsu’s son, is born. | 1488 | 長享二 | 観世長俊生まれる。 | |
Yoshitane 1490-1493 | Nobumitsu writes Kanze Kojirō Gonnogami Densho. | 1497 | 明応六 | 信光、「観世小次郎権守伝書」を写す |
Yoshizumi 1494-1508 | Yukishige, the official Kanze Tayū, dies. He was succeeded by his young son, Motohiro. | 1500 | 明応九 | 五世観世大夫之重、没す。子の元広継ぐ。 |
Yoshitane 1508-1521 | Nobumitsu visits Sanetaka at Sanetaka’s residence. In his diary (a link to Sanetakakōki), Sanetaka records an exchange on Nobumitsu’s age. | 1509 | 永正六 | 三条西実隆邸に観世小次郎が来る。実隆 小次郎に年齢を問うと六十歳という。(実隆公記) |
Nobumitsu writes Koe tsukau gotoand a kusemai dance, Toraokuri. | 1511 | 永正八 | 観世小次郎信光、曲舞謡「虎送」を書写す。謡伝書「声ツカウコト」も著す。 | |
Kanze Tayū Motohirō performs kajin noh at Shinkurotani, and Nobumitsu plays the shite role in his latest play, Yugyо̄ yanagi (The Priest nd the Willow). | 1514 | 永正一一 | 観世大夫元広、黒谷で勧進猿楽を興行す。信光作の「遊行柳」が初演され、信光シテを舞う 。 | |
Nobumitsu dies. He is said to be buried at Shōkokuji, Kyoto | 1516 | 永正一三 | 観世信光死去。京都の相国寺に葬るという。 |
Contributor: Lim Beng Choo