October 14, 2017

MINGEI - Yaegaki hime

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.jp/2011/08/kubi-ningyoo-head-dolls-info.html
.


- - - - - Yaegakihime 八重垣姫 Princess Yaegaki-Hime - - - - -

串人形八重垣姫にさくら散る
kushi ningyoo Yaegakihime ni sakura chiru

dolls on a stick -
cherry blossoms scatter
on princes Yaegakihime


Kikawada Michiho 黄川田美千穂 『貝むらさき』




Yaegaki hime is a figure from the puppet theater, later Kabuki. She was the daughter of the famous lord Uesugi Kenshin .

In Kabuki, she is daughter of Nagao Kenshin and falls in love with Minosaku, who looks like her fiance Takeda Katsuyori (who is in fact Katsuyori, who is alive).


old doll from Aichi, about 20 cm high
carrying the helmet of the warrior Takeda Shingen
made by 梶田屋 Kajitaya (佐藤家 Sato family)


- AKAHIME - Princess in a red robe
The standard costume for hime (princesses) is a furisode (long-sleeved kimono) with matching uchikake (long outer garment) embroidered with various patterns such as the flowers of the four seasons, the shapes of clouds, or fans scattered on running water, using gold and silver threads on red fabric for both layers of the costume. This costume set is called "Akahime," which has also become the common name of the princess role. Red color represents the cuteness and innocence of the princess.
source : unesco/kabuki




. . . CLICK here for Photos of other dolls !




princess Yaegaki. The princess is the heroine of a five-act drama named Honcho Nijushiko, the 24 models of filial piety. This historical drama was first performed in 1766 as a – Bunraku (文楽) – traditional Japanese puppet theater also called Ningyō jōruri.
.... At the end, possessed by the mysterious power of the helmet and guarded by two white foxes, Yaegaki-hime sets out to pursue her lover across the frozen Lake Suwa and flies off to Katsuyori. Katsuyori was saved, Takeda and Kenshin made peace and Princess Yaegaki and Katsuyori got married and live happily ever after.
- reference source : yaegaki-kai.be/yaegaki-hime -




"Shimosuwa: Yaegaki-hime"

from the series Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road (Kisokaidô rokujûkyû tsugi no uchi)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)


..................................................................................................................................................................

No comments: