Songs of woodmen and flute-playing of herdsmen. Through poets' verses are known to all the world. Moreover the songs of woodmen and the flute-playing of herdsmen,įlute-playing even of reapers and songs of wood-fellers Unlocked for from men of our condition, you say! Have you not read:. It was a pleasant sound, and all the pleasanter because one does not look for such music from men of your condition. Was it one of you who was playing on the flute just now? Is it to us you are speaking? What do you wish to know? Hey, you reapers! I have a question to ask you. This is my life, and the sum of hateful tasks.Īre grown estranged. I will wait here till the flute-player passes, and ask him to tell me the story of this place.Īnd down to the shore again, and up to the hill,. Truly the past returns to my mind as though it were a thing of to-day.īut listen! I hear the sound of a flute coming from a knoll of rising ground. I have come so fast that here I am already at Ichi-no-Tani, in the country of Tsu. ( He walks slowly across the stage, singing a song descriptive of his journey.) Hence it comes that I am dressed in priestly guise.Īnd now I am going down to Ichi-no-Tani to pray for the salvation of Atsumori's soul. I have left my home and call myself the priest Rensei this I have done because of my grief at the death of Atsumori, who fell in battle by my hand. I am Kumagai no Naozane, a man of the country of Musashi. THE PRIEST RENSEI (formerly the warrior Kumagai).Ī YOUNG REAPER, who turns out to be the ghost of Atsumori. Sacred Texts Shinto Buddhism Index Previous Next The Noh Plays of Japan: Chapter I: Atsumori
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