Matsuya
Nozawa
MATSUYA NIZAWA
Matsuya Nozawa (Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1955)
Kabuki Gidayu Shamisen Player, Important Intangible Cultural Property
1974: Completed the first Bunraku training at the National Theater. Became an apprentice of Matsunosuke Nozawa.
In April of the same year, he made his debut at the National Theater Bunraku performance. Since 1979, he has been playing the shamisen in Kabuki.
He continues to compose songs such as "Jiraiya Goketsu Tanwa" and "NINAGAWA Twelfth Night."
In 2004, he founded the "Creative Joruri Association." In 2016, he founded "Samini Ikijin JAPAN."
While performing on the stage in Shochiku Kabuki, he has been writing about old tales, folk tales, and local customs as his life's work.
He composes pieces that arrange traditional stories in the style of Joruri puppet theatre, and performs them while playing the guitar.
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Kabuki with 300 years of history
Kabuki, which has been selected as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, is divided into three major categories: Jidaimono, Sewamono, and Matsuba-memono. Among these three, there is Gidayu Kyogen. It is a type of kyogen that was transferred to Kabuki from Gidayu Kyogen and Bunraku. Gidayu Kyogen has a floor on the right side of the stage, on which a narrator and a shamisen player narrate the movements of the actors, livening up the stage. In Japan, 13 Kabuki Gidayu Shamisen players support Kabuki. In the past, when Japonism was booming overseas, Ukiyo-e prints influenced many famous painters, and among them, "Yakusha-e" prints depicting Kabuki actors were very popular. While playing the shamisen on the Kabuki stage, Nozawa Matsuya founded the "Creative Joruri Association" in 2004 as his life's work, and he converts old stories, folk tales, local stories, novels, etc. into easy-to-understand words, composes them, and performs them as "Creative Joruri." With the desire to make Kabuki, Bunraku and Joruri familiar to more people, we perform all over the country, and also perform at schools, kindergartens, and elderly care facilities, and let people actually touch the shamisen. Please enjoy the world of Joruri, a "narrative" music performed on the Gidayu shamisen, which is indispensable to Kabuki and Bunraku. Matsuya Nozawa's fascinating stories are also popular.
＜Original Joruri＞
"Hiroshima Blooming Hope Flower Kanna", "The Tale of Friendship Tears Red Demon", "Okurihakogi", "Gorgeous Woman Dance", "Snowfall Six Umbrella Jizo", "Actor Demon King",
"Farewell Lanterns", "The Demon Extermination of the Bright Momo", "The Lightless Soba Shop", "The Tale of the Violent Monkey and the Crab's Revenge", "The Human Chair", etc.
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