No.356
The place where Hayakawa Ogata performed was in a small town not far from Suijing City, called Ginzuku Town.
Ginzuka Town is not famous, but the town's Kabuki Theater has a history of more than 100 years, and it can be called the throne of Kabuki theater.
It has been burned down several times and rebuilt several times, and today the building has a clear overlapping style of the old and the new, with a purple curtain hanging in front of the door.
Countless Kabuki actors have appeared here, and even more, it is regarded as the highest honor to appear here.
Hayakawa Ogata, who took the stage at the Kabuki Theater today, was also the first time to appear here, and because of his high popularity, tickets were sold out early, and a banner reading "Thanksgiving" was hung in front of the ticket window.
Tickets are mainly bought by young women, dressed in fashionable and hot clothes, and do not look at all like the traditional audience of the ancient performance of Kabuki, and they are crowded in front of the ticket window.
The theater manager had never seen such an unprecedented grand occasion for more than ten years, and he was excited to thank God, feeling that the vitality of this ancient art had not been broken, and that it could attract so many young audiences.
The clerk who knew the current affairs smiled bitterly and said that the manager you have misunderstood, they are not here for traditional arts, they just want to see the man who is amazing.
Today's play by Hayakawa Ogata is "New Kojiki", which he has rewritten by himself.
The curtain hung low on the stage, it was pitch black, and the guests whispered.
The audience was dressed in elaborate kimonos or foot-length evening dresses, and they were as reserved as a lady.
The gazelle and the gypress sit in the box on the second floor, they hold an invitation card from Hayakawa Ogata, they are the VIP of the VIPs, enjoy the highest level of treatment, and the waiter will come forward when they enter, and then introduce the box with the best location.
"Have you ever seen a Kabuki performance? Do you understand? ”
Seemingly a little uncomfortable with the surrounding environment, the Tibetan antelope frowned slightly and asked in a low voice.
"I watched one in Hezhong, and I didn't have a deep impression of it, but I remember that the actors' faces were as white as dead people."
Hearing the words of the Tibetan antelope, the Crane tilted her head and thought that she was not interested in Kabuki performances, and the memories in her mind were also vague.
"That's all you remember?"
The Tibetan antelope closed its eyes, and the power of the waveguide swept around, and after finding no abnormality, it opened its eyes again.
"And Shina, who accompanied me to the show that day, wore a nude evening dress." The duck thought hard, "The waist is full of rhinestones, and the thin waist is very dazzling when you walk—"
"I still think that dress is going to be heavy."
"That means you can't read Kabuki performances, right?"
The Tibetan antelope now had the urge to slap himself in the face, why did he ask......
By the time he got his first answer, he should have stopped the subject.
This witch-like girl, where would she like this slightly "old-fashioned" traditional art performance?
Suddenly, the lights went dark, and someone beat Sakuragi's small drum, and the drummer struck on the drum surface, and the drum sounded hoarse and low, like a ghost whispering in distant antiquity.
The curtain opened, and the plain white woman stood quietly in the center of the stage, her long black hair scattered.
"All happiness in the world is an epiphany in the shadow of the moon; Only loneliness and pain are often accompanied by the depths of the Yellow Spring. ”
The woman sang a cappella and slowly raised her head, her face as pale as paper, only the corners of her eyes were a terrible blood red.
She looks like a ghost in the depths of the Yellow Spring, but her body is graceful and charming, just like a peerless beautiful woman wrapped in a thin veil, which makes people's hearts flutter slightly.
"Hayakawa Ogata?"
The Tibetan antelope was startled, the teacup in his hand shook, and it almost fell to the ground.
It turned out to be Hayakawa Ogata in women's clothing! Hayakawa Ogata is as beautiful as a girl, and it is not too surprising to play the female role of Tibetan antelope.
can see a woman's sexiness in a man, which makes him feel creepy.
But he couldn't be ridiculed, he was really shocked by Hayakawa Ogata's feminine charm, and he felt that a thousand-year-old female ghost possessed a colorful cloth and made the patterns of skeletons and maggots with embroidery.
[Mythology? 】
Although I had never seen a kabuki performance, the Tibetan antelope, who was familiar with history and antiquity, knew the background of the other party's next performance in Hayakawa Ogata's cappella.
Hayakawa Ogata plays the mythical mother goddess Izanami, and this new mythological drama is about the divine marriage between the father god Izanagi and the mother goddess Izanami, and the later rebellion.
Izanagi and Izanami were originally a brother and sister, but they were the only young people in the vast world.
They couldn't find a partner, so they had to marry each other and give birth to Japanese gods.
However, Izanami was burned to death when she gave birth to the god of fire, and Izanagi missed his wife and trekked to the depths of the Yellow Spring to save her.
They poured out their sorrows through the veil, and Izanami was finally willing to return to the yang world with Izanagi, but asked him to wait outside the main hall of the Yellow Springs Kingdom to get his makeup done.
Izanagi waited a long time for his wife to come out, so he broke off a tooth from a wooden comb and lit it, and this flame illuminated the eternal darkness of the Yellow Springs Kingdom.
Izanagi finally saw his wife's unrecovered body, a carrion crawling with maggots, dressed in colorful corpse clothes.
He fled in terror from the Yellow Springs Kingdom, and Izanami hated him for breaking the covenant and chased after him with the Yellow Springs Ghost Maidens.
Izanagi fled to a place called Huangquan Hirazaka and separated Yoyo and Huangquan with Oishi, and Izanami finally couldn't catch up with him, so the two of them resentfully broke off the marriage across Oishi.
Since then, Izanami has become a murderous god who kills 1,000 Japanese people every day, but Izanagi has built 1,500 maternity wards and gives birth to 1,500 babies a day, and the population of Japan has gradually increased.
Warm golden lights enveloped the stage, symbolizing the transition of the stage from the gloomy Yellow Springs Kingdom to the world of the world, and Izanagi, dressed in golden robes, slowly appeared.
Wearing a carved wood mask and stepping on the "folded foot", he walked out of the perfect circle on the dance floor while chanting poems in praise of his three children.
The three children, named Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi, and Susanoo, were born to him alone after returning from the Yellow Springs Kingdom, and they had nothing to do with Izanami.
Izanagi ordered them to help him protect the world, Amaterasu was appointed to rule the kingdom of the gods, Takamagahara, Tsukiyomi was appointed to rule the country of the night, and the ocean was given to Susanoo to manage.
Izanagi gave Amaterasu the Yaga Mirror, which symbolizes the sun, and Tsukiyomi the eight-foot Chokatama, which symbolizes the moon, and then gave his youngest son, Susanoo, the sharpest sword, Tenha Ha.
【Heavenly Feather Feather Slashing ......】
When he saw that the sharp blade was handed over to the actor who played Susanoo, the Tibetan antelope subconsciously glanced at his left hand, the real Tianyu Feather Slash - Ten Grip Sword, which was lodged in the palm of his hand at this moment.
"Hayakawa Ogata, what do you want to do?"
Tightening his left hand, the Tibetan antelope watched the performance on the stage and muttered.
Izanagi danced merrily with the children in the front desk, while Izanami wept and sang behind the black veil of tulle, and the plain white figure folded repeatedly, showing how sharp the pain of abandonment was.