Makiginu

巻絹 Rolls of Silk

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3 Repertoire

Kanze, Hōshō, Komparu, Kongō, Kita

4 Synopsis

An imperial envoy (waki) and his retainer (ai) are delivering one thousand rolls of silk collected from the various provinces, to be donated to the shrine of Kumano (Mie, Wakayama). A worker who has accompanied the envoy from the capital (tsure) walks in late, explaining that after they disembarked at Kumano, before coming to this donation ceremony he went to offer a poem to the deity of the Otonashi Tenjin Shrine. The envoy arrests him and ties him up. Just then, a priestess possessed by the Tenjin God appears, praises the man’s poem and tells the envoy to forgive him. The envoy forgives him and recites a Shinto prayer. Tenjin dances to kagura music and vanishes, and the priestess comes to her senses.