【Traditional Performing Arts Experience in Kyoto】Umegawa and Chubei 梅川忠兵衛

Video shoot sample of the choreography part in the Japanese dance of "Umegawa and Chubei" experience
Details of the experience session ：
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日本舞踊「梅川忠兵衛」体験での振付部分のビデオ撮影サンプル
With "Umegawa and Chubei"　梅川忠兵衛とは（日本文は下）
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"Umegawa and Chubei" were lovers really exist in Osaka and were modeled for "Meido No Hikyaku" of Joruri.
Chubei worked as a Hikyaku in Awajimachi. He fell in love with Umegawa, a prostitute in Shinmachi. He committed a high crime of stole the public money which he has kept in order to ransom Umegawa. His crime was death punishment. They had risk of their death. So, they tried to go seeing Magoemon, Chubei's biological father, to hometown in their lifetime. They could see Chubei's father for short time. Chubei and Umegawa went on a journey without the destination in order to get away from the police.
「梅川と忠兵衛」は大阪に実在し、浄瑠璃『冥土の飛脚』のモデルとなった恋人同士です。
淡路町の飛脚問屋の忠兵衛は、新町の遊女梅川と恋仲になり、梅川を身請けするために、預かった公金に手をつけるという大罪を犯してしまいます。
御用金に手をつければ死罪。すぐに事情が知れると覚悟した２人は死ぬ前に亀屋忠兵衛の実の父、孫右衛門に会いたいと故郷の新ノ口村へ。父子の対面がかなったのも、つかの間、追っ手に追われる梅川、忠兵衛は行き先の無い旅に出る。