The moment he heard the name, Imagawa Yoshimoto guessed what kind of performance this would be - it was nothing more than telling ancient myths and stories, those old legends of gods in "Kojiki": the beginning of heaven and earth, the first birth in Takamagahara First came the main god of heaven, followed by the high emperor’s spiritual god and the divine emperor’s spiritual master, which respectively represent the foundation of the universe and the yin and yang. The three gods are the gods of creation and have lived in seclusion in Gaotianyuan since the day they were born.
Sure enough, just as Imagawa Yoshimoto had imagined, an actor playing the role of the main god of the Heavenly God appeared gracefully under the music, singing and dancing, followed by the High Emperor's Spirit God and the God Emperor's Spirit Lord. However, their costumes are different from the dull and boring costumes of Noh dramas. They are revealing costumes decorated with bright and bright colors - I don't know if this is considered disrespectful to the gods.
After that, the other Tianjin Gods and the Seventh Generation of the Gods appeared one after another, but most of the actors were just supporting actors in the scene. They sang songs from the left to the right of the venue and then left. The only ones left on the field were the famous Izanagi and Brother and sister Izanami.
The actor who plays Izanami is the girl Aguo who appears wearing a mask. After seeing A Guo, the audience cheered again.
Sure enough, the actors of Izanagi and Izanami were dancing around a stick with an exaggerated length - probably referring to the Amanuma Spear that solidifies floating objects and shapes the heaven and earth.
Then, the classic line appeared——
Izanagi asked Izanami: "How is your body developing? (Let me see if your development is normal!)"
Izanami replied: "It's mature, but one part is not closed. (Brother Jie, no!)"
Izanagi then said to Izanami: "My body has also matured, but it is only exposed in many places. (I think you don't understand at all.) Let us combine with each other and give birth to the country! (Be obedient. ,let me see!)"
"This is too blatant. Are you using such a lame excuse to court love?" Ginkgo, who had never read books such as "Kojiki", heard this explanation for the first time and immediately realized that there was a strong tendency to drive here. Then he complained to Imagawa Yoshimoto: "This Izanagi is exactly the same pervert as sir. Are you the reincarnation of Izanagi?"
"You are blasphemous, Ginkgo." Imagawa Yoshimoto rubbed Ginkgo's hair dissatisfied, and then recited a few Buddhist chants to unblock Ginkgo.
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So, Izanami and Izanaki started walking around the stage respectively, Izanami from right to left, and Izanaki from left to right. After walking around the stage for a week, the two met in front of the stage. Izanami was the first to speak: "What a handsome man!"
Izanagi immediately responded: "What a beautiful woman!"
So the two gods were married.
"So simple?" Ginkgo began to complain uneasily, sincerely feeling unworthy of Izanami, "You're taking advantage of Izanami like this? It's simply easier than Mr. pursuing me."
"It's blasphemous again." Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed secretly, and once again asked the gods for forgiveness on behalf of Ginkgo.
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Next, the two actresses began to perform the process of giving birth (yes, the actor who played Izanagi was also a woman). Although it seemed a bit inconsistent, the two deformed children were also clothed with props. Bao came to express it, but the audience watched it with gusto.
"Why are all the children we gave birth to unsound? Let's go ask the gods for instructions!" Izanaki and Izanami looked at the two cloth bags in their arms, stared at each other, and sang in unison. asked.
As a result, another actor appeared on the sidelines and began to burn the deer shoulder bones for divination in the corner of the stage. This burning took at least a quarter of an hour. During this period, there was no other performance except the soundtrack. It is reasonable to suspect that it was under water. duration. After the burning, the actor playing the god gave the result for the two gods: "It's because the woman spoke first when the two were united. It is unlucky for the woman to speak first, and it must be done again."
"What the hell is this? Women are not allowed to speak first? Why is it unlucky? I don't think your divination by the god is unlucky." Gingko was shocked by the plot again and couldn't help but started to complain wildly. .
"Three goals." Imagawa Yoshimoto felt that he was too busy and had been praying to the gods for forgiveness for Ginkgo.
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In any case, Izanaki and Izanami followed the previous path and walked around the stage again. This time, Izanagi first said "What a beautiful woman", and then Izanami said "What a handsome man", and then the two reunited. After a complex pas de deux, fourteen islands were born - this is the origin of the Japanese archipelago.
However, this is where the tragedy begins. Izanaki and Izanami later gave birth to many gods such as wind, river, sea, mountain, etc. However, when giving birth to the god of fire and giving birth to earth, Izanami was burned and died in childbirth.
Takeda Harunobu's expression on the side was a little gloomy. Imagawa Yoshimoto noticed it and didn't know how to comfort him, so he lowered his head and asked Ginkgo softly: "Did that incident hit Tora Chiyo so hard?"
What Imagawa Yoshimoto is referring to is Takeda Harunobu's first marriage. Before the marriage between Takeda Harunobu and Mrs. Sanjo led by the Imagawa family, Takeda Nobutora had made a political marriage contract for Takeda Harunobu in order to unite with the Ogidani Uesugi family to fight against the Hojo family. Married in the second year (1533). However, this miserable woman died a year later due to dystocia and both mother and child died.
"Although it is a political marriage, my brother has a very good relationship with the little girl from the Uesugi family. I love her so much. The little girl also loves my brother very much and clings to him every day. As the eldest lady of the Ogidani Uesugi family, as long as you have free time, Come down and mend his clothes." Ginkgo sighed, glanced at his younger brother, and then said to Imagawa Yoshimoto: "That little girl is younger than my brother, and she married alone to a place like Kai with terrible conditions. People around her were also very cruel to her. She cried quietly every night in the first few days, and my brother stayed with her to comfort her. This is the first time I have seen my brother look so gentle since I was a child."
"But it's probably because she was too young. It was too hard for the little girl to give birth, so it was difficult to give birth. At that time, my brother was waiting outside the delivery room like crazy. In the end, he only waited for two cold corpses. He saw Without saying a word after the corpse, he personally covered the little girl with a cloth, and then locked himself up without eating or drinking for three days. In the next two years, every time he was not found in the Uzaki Hall, he would probably be there. He went to the little girl's grave, and you can definitely find him if you go there."
"Is that so..." Imagawa Yoshimoto pursed his lips, and his eyes at Takeda Harunobu became complicated - I didn't expect that Takeda Harunobu, who seemed cold-blooded, put his interests first in everything, and had no personal feelings, actually once had Such an emotional side.
"But then one day, it seemed to be the middle of March (1536). It seemed to be the 15th or what day. I can't remember the specific day." Ginkgo recalled the past. For her who forgets things easily, 7 years What happened before was too long ago, "That was the last time he went to the little girl's grave, and I went with him. He didn't know what he thought of, so he cried loudly in front of the grave, and then passed out. I was the one who carried him back to Tsuzaki Hall."
"Since then, he seems to have changed. He will never see the little girl again, and he will never see his gentle side again. His personality, eyes, and speech are all different. It's like he has changed into a different person. He is no longer like the brother I brought up. Instead, he looks like my bastard father - mercenary, ruthless, and ruthless. Alas..." Ginkgo said this with a regretful tone in her tone. With a hint of distress:
"Maybe it was the death of the little girl from the Uesugi family that hurt him, and he became like this. He has always been very cold towards my siblings. Sometimes I often think, if the little girl did not die, but gave birth to a child for him, The family of three is enjoying themselves happily. Does it mean that my brother will not become the bastard he is now, but will become a kind and good person like my husband?"
"People are shaped by the different events they experience in life. This is also destined..." Imagawa Yoshimoto rubbed his eyebrows and sighed: "I am often afraid. If I hadn't met the teacher, I would have What will my life be like..."
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The subsequent plot still unfolds according to the mythology in "Kojiki". After Izanami died, she left the human world and went to the Kingdom of Underworld. Aguo, who played her, also changed into black and white clothes and walked to the right corner of the stage.
Izanagi was deeply saddened by the death of his wife and missed his wife day and night, and finally decided to go to the Underworld to pick up his wife. The Izanagi actor walked from the left side of the stage to the right side, and the two stage attendants moved onto a small wooden
The bridge is placed in the center of the stage, serving as the "Yellow Springs Hirazaka" connecting the two realms of yin and yang. Izanagi then walked through the Yellow Springs Hirazaka and came to the Yellow Springs Kingdom on the right side of the stage, and invited Izanami: "The mission of the land we created together has not been completed yet, please follow me back to the world!"
"It's such a pity. Why didn't you come to pick me up earlier? I've already eaten the food from the underworld and can't return to the human world." Izanami also looked sad, but then she reluctantly agreed: "Please allow me Please consult with the gods and please don’t peek during this period!”
After saying that, Aguo, the actor who plays Izanami, turned around and walked off the stage, walked around in a circle and went up to the left side of the stage. Izanaki was waiting on the right side of the stage, but it took about half a quarter of an hour (it was reasonable to suspect that he was in the water again). , Izanami still made no move. Izanagi was a little anxious when he saw this, so he couldn't hold it back, so he walked off the stage and walked around to the left side of the stage to look for Izanami - only to see his wife's face covered with maggots and her appearance was ugly - this was The girl Aguo took off Izanami's mask just now and put on a new ugly mask.
Izanagi was so frightened that he turned around and ran away. Izanami became angry because of her husband's dislike, and rushed to hunt down Izanaki. Izanagi was so frightened that he ran away and ran around the stage for weeks and weeks. Finally, when he was running through the Yomizumi Hirazaka, with the help of the field props team, he dropped a Sentinel Stone and placed it on the Yomizumi Hirazaka. on the bridge, blocking Izanami's path and officially blocking the two realms of Yin and Yang. From then on, communication between Huangquan Kingdom and the human world was no longer possible.
"Men are really rubbish." Ginkgo looked at the plot in front of her, and her resentment seemed to have turned into water vapor and steamed out of her head. "My wife died because of you in childbirth. You didn't go to see her for a long time, and you still feel disgusted when you finally went there. Everyone is old and young. We Japanese are all descendants of this bastard male god, no wonder there are so many bastard men."
"Ginkgo, please stop saying a few words." Imagawa Yoshimoto's face was full of black lines, for fear that the gods in the sky would hear all Ginkgo's complaints today.
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The next plot is also familiar to Imagawa Yoshimoto. It is written in "Kojiki" that Izanami, who found that she could not chase the Senkishi to the human world, said angrily: "I will kill a thousand people in the human world every day!"
Not to be outdone, Izanagi shouted through the Thousand Stones: "Then I will give birth to a new baby every day!"
From this, there is birth, old age, illness and death.
However, the development of the stage play suddenly and significantly deviated from "Kojiki" and took a path that Imagawa Yoshimoto had never imagined.
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Aguo, who played Izanami, suddenly knelt in front of the Thousand Stones and cried bitterly:
"Why did it become like this? Why did it become like this? My home, my country, my lover, everything about me..."
"It would be great if I could do it all over again!"
"Let's start over, let time go back to the beginning!"
