@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008403,
 author = {星野, 厚子 and Hoshino, Atsuko},
 issue = {12},
 journal = {無形文化遺産研究報告, Research and Reports on Intangible Cultural Heritage},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In previous volumes of Research and Reports on Intangible Cultural Heritage the present author has reported on two recordings on SP record made by Pathé in the collection of the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties: on a nagauta “Yoshiwara Suzume” (vol. 9, March 2015) and on “Shin Urashima” (vol. 11, March 2017). The present report is on the recording of “Tsuna Yakata,” another nagauta (manufacture number 34648 - 34653, Institute’s inventory number 17-221A - 17-223B).
In this recording, Yoshimura Ijuro VI sings the song to the accompaniment of several musical instruments including the shamisen by the brothers Kineya Rokuzaemon XIII and Kineya Kangoro V. Since the piece was composed around 1869 by Kineya Kangoro III, grandfather-in-law of Rokuzaemon and Kangoro, it is a historically valuable work performed by those close in kinship to the composer.
In the lyrics of the piece, the aunt of Watanabe no Tsuna who raised him as a child visits the house of Tsuna who had subdued a demon by cutting off its arm at Rashomon. The two speak, fondly remembering the past. But the aunt is the demon in disguise and at the end he takes back the arm that Tsuna had cut off.
The piece uses ohzatsumabushi , a different type of narrative phrase from that of nagauta and one which was absorbed into nagauta in the middle of the 19th century. The piece is characterized by its wild, soul-stirring melody. The report also touches on the ohzatsumabushi “Tsuwamono Azumaya-zukuri” which is said to be one of the sources of “Tsuna Yakata.”
There are several versions of the recording of “Tsuna Yakata” by Yoshimura Ijuro. Since this Pathé recording is assumed to have been made around October 1911, it would be an old one for Ijuro’s recording. Ijuro, who was a transmitter of ohzatsumabushi under the name of Ohzatsuma Bundayu IV, sings the roles of Tsuna, the aunt and demon skillfully with his characteristic strong narration and wide range of voice.
The shamisen performance by the brothers Rokuzaemon and Kangoro is a perfect match combining different melodies like the melody of ohzatsuma at the beginning, that of makusanju, or melody of shamisen which is used at change of scenes, and that of ohzatsuma again when Tsuna and the demon fight. Although according to the label on the record Kineya Kangoro is said to have been in charge of the high notes (uwajoshi ) of shamisen , it was not possible to confirm such high notes on the recording.},
 pages = {149--158},
 title = {〔資料紹介〕東京文化財研究所所蔵　フランス・パテ社製SPレコード　長唄『綱館』を中心に},
 year = {2018}
}