Commentaries

Commentaries on nō plays aimed at providing definitions of the vocabulary and annotations of the literary and religious references in plays. What started first as marginalia—notes on meanings of words and phrases alongside the lines in chant books—later developed into the first official commentary collection, Utai no shō (Commentary on Chant Books), completed at the end of the 16^th century. The authors of the commentaries were erudite scholars and took painstaking efforts to clarify obscurities in play texts.

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  Title:

  Commentary on Chant Books, Morikiyo Manuscript, Movable Type

  Title (jp):

  Kokatsuji-ban Utai no shō Morikiyobon  古活字版『謡抄』守清本

  Description:

  Ōhon (27.0 x 20.4 cm), fukurotoji binding. This is a print version of Utai no shō (“Commentary on Chant Books”), the first commentary on chant books compiled under the commission of Toyotomi Hidetsugu in 1595 (Bunroku 4). Each book includes ten plays, as listed below.
  Aioi book: Aioi (Takasago), Yumiyawata, Yatategamo, Hakurakuten, Yōrō, Kinsatsu, Kureha, Hōjōgawa, Naniwa, Oimatsu
  Unoha book: Unoha, Asagao, Tatsuta, Taema, Kazuraki, Seiganji, Kakitsubata, Hagoromo, Miwa, Ama
  Mimosuso book: Mimosuso, Yorimasa, Kiyotsune, Kanehira, Tamura, Yashima, Sanemori, Tomonaga, Fujito, Tanzaku Tadanori (Tadanori)
  Sotoba Komachi book: Sotoba Komachi, Higaki, Sekidera Komachi, Obasute, Tamakazura, Ukifune, Genji kuyō, Izutsu, Matsukaze, Yuya
  Utaura book: Utaura, Senju Shigehira, Uneme, Yōkihi, Futari Shizuka, Bashō, Nokiba no ume, Teika, Nonomiya, Eguchi, Yūgao
  Nishikigi book: Nishikigi, Funabashi, Matsumushi, Utō, Ominameshi, Tenko, Kayoi Komachi, Kantan, Akogi, Nue
  Rōdaiko book: Rōdaiko, Hanagatami, Tōgan Koji, Hanjo, Jinen Koji, Fujidaiko, Kashiwazaki, Sumidagawa, Miidera, Hyakuman

  Collection name:

  Hosei University Kōzan Collection

  Volume:

  10

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