京都の師走を彩る南座(京都市東山区)の「顔見世興行」を前に、出演する役者の名を看板に墨書する「まねき書き」が進んでいる。2023年11月6日の朝は、顔見世で襲名を披露する海老蔵改め市川團十郎さん(45歳)の名が力強くしたためられた。
江戸歌舞伎の大名跡「團十郎」さんのまねきが書かれたのは、先代團十郎さん最後の舞台となった2012年以来、11年ぶり。新・團十郎さんの長男・市川新之助さん(10歳)、長女・市川ぼたんさん(12歳)の名も、それぞれ看板に記された。
女性のまねき看板は、二代目中村鴈治郎さんの長女・中村玉緒さん(84歳)が1948年の顔見世に9歳で出演した時など戦前・戦後に例はあるが、ぼたんさんが半世紀以上ぶりとなる。
Ahead of the Kaomise performance at Minamiza (Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City), which lights up Kyoto's December season, the ''maneki-kaki'' event, in which the names of the actors who will be performing are written in ink on signboards, is underway. On the morning of November 6, 2023, the name of Danjuro Ichikawa (45 years old), formerly known as Ebizo, was announced with great force as he announced his succession at Kaomise.
This is the first time in 11 years that a copy of Danjuro, a famous Edo Kabuki performer, has been written, since 2012, which was his last stage performance. The names of Arata Danjuro's eldest son, Shinnosuke Ichikawa (10 years old), and his eldest daughter, Botan Ichikawa (12 years old), were also written on the sign.
There are examples of female imitation signboards before and after the war, such as when Tamao Nakamura (84 years old), the eldest daughter of the second generation Ganjiro Nakamura, appeared at the Kano Kaomise in 1948 at the age of 9, but Botan has been in charge for half a century. That's it for the first time.
September 28, 2024