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「コカー」としないのはこだわりではなく、そう発音するとしまりのない鳴き声になるからです。
A crowﾕs cries are transcribed as ﾔqua-qua-ﾔ in Japan today, but in an ancient time it was ﾔquoca−ﾕ. Long ago, Japanese people stopped using the latter as it was no longer convincing.
大峰山の修行を終えて本山に帰る山伏が、道中のどの渇きを覚えて茶屋を探します。茶屋の代わりに見つけたのが見事な柿の木。早速よじ登って柿をかじりますが、ちょうど見舞いに来た畑主に見つかって動物の鳴きまねをさせられます。類曲に「盆山」があります。
This is a well known Kyogen play, in which birdsﾕ cries are used to amuse a character on the stage as well as audiences. In the play, a yamabushi looks for a tea house, as he is feeling thirsty on his way down to a town from mountains. He finds a tall persimmon orchard. He immediately climbs one of them and starts eating persimmons. But a farmer comes to the site, while patrolling his fields of persimmon trees to protect the fruits from thieves. He finds the yambushi on a tree, and by threats he forces him to do mimicries of a crow and other animals for his amusement.
A similar scene is found in another play, called Bonsan.
趣味の盆山(盆栽)集めが高じて盗みに入り、主人に見つかって盆山の影に追い込まれ、脅されて動物の鳴きまねをさせられる「盆山」と言う狂言の中で出てきます。主人は最初から盗人の正体を見破っていますが、本人はバレていないものと思って必死に鳴きまねをします。他に「二人大名」という狂言にも同様に犬の鳴きまねをする場面が出てきます。
Some of us are taught, when we stared learning English at a Junior High School, that dogs bark ﾔwoof, woof.ﾕ The dog barks are the same in the world, and yet, they have been given different mimicries and transcriptions.
xx(A dog may need an interpreter, when it crosses the oceans to another continent.)xx
In ancient Japanese, the barking of a dog was transcribed as ﾔbyoubyouﾕ, instead of ﾔwanwanﾕ as in Japan today.
In a Kyoen play , Bonsan, a bonsai collector could not resist the temptation and goes into another collectorﾕs garden to steal his ones. But he is found, and is chased to the corner of the garden. He gets threatened, and is forced to make cries of animals. The owner and the audience know that the thiefﾕs identity is revealed. But the thief thinks otherwise, and he keeps up his desperate efforts in makingcries, imitating animals.
Futaridaimyou has a similar scene where one of the characters is forced to make mimetic animalsﾕ cries.
もしかすると最初に覚える鳴き声かもしれません。ですが、靭猿の小猿の鳴き声はもっと穏やかで、独特の調子があります。これは柿山伏の山伏が脅されてとっさにする「鳴きまね」靭猿のマラソンのような比較的ゆったりとした鳴き声ではなく、これは短期決戦の百メートルダッシュです。のんびりしていては鉄砲で撃ち殺されますから。盆山にも同じところが出てきます。
A Kyogen actor is said to ﾔStarts (his acting) with cries of a monkey and ends (it) with them. Cries of a monkey will be, perhaps, the first animal sounds we learn in Kyogen acting. Cries of a young monkey in Utsubo-zaru have gentle and soft sounds with a unique intonation. In Kaki-Yamabushi, yamabushi is dressed half like a samurai and the other half like a monk and walks in the wild mountains, seeking mythical power. He comes down from mountains to a town. He climbs on a persimmon tree and eats its fruits to quelch his thirst. But he is found on a tree by the owner of the persimmon orchard, and is threatened with a gun. he immediately startsmaking mimetic sounds of a monkey. But his monkey cries are desperate ones, so they are fast and incessant, unlike gentle and slow ones in Utsubozzaru. The similar scene is seen in another play called Bonsan.
しかし、郊外の学校の生徒でも鳶の鳴き声を知らないと言います。実は知りませーんと答えている彼らの頭上からピーヒョロロローと聞こえてきたりするのですが・・・
Cries of a kite are also used in Kaki-Yamabushi, which is often performed at schools.
A Yamabushi is forced to make this mimetic sounds, after he is found on a persimmon tree, stealing persimmons. Even school children in a Suburban area do not know a kiteﾕs cries, even though sometimes its cries could be heard over their heads; peeehyororoooooooooooooo...............................
大を取って茶碗を付けてください。天目茶碗。
大きな焼き物の茶碗です。私をして狂言を好きにさせた音です。「附子」の稽古があるとこの場面を待ちわびてました。この人(達)はどんな「ぐぁらりん ちーん」をしてくれるのだろうとワクワクしていました。同じ擬音でも人によって違う音になるのも狂言の面白いところです。
このページでは一人でやっていますが、本当は二人で息を合わせて落っことします。「ぐぁらりん」が太郎冠者で「ちーん」が次郎冠者の担当です。「ちーん」の方がインパクトがあって私も好きですが、上手に「ちーん」と割れるかどうかはシテの「ぐぁらりん」次第です。目立たないけど難しい役割がシテである太郎冠者に回されてます。
What is Daitenmoku?
Take ﾔdaiﾕ off and add ﾔchawanﾕ at the end and then it will be a tenmoku-chawan.
It is a big bowl of porcelain, originally from China and meant to be a treasure. In the Kogen play, Busu, two naughty servants, Tarokaja and Jirokaja, make calls ﾔGualalinﾕ and ﾔchi~nﾕ, when they break this porcelain bowl treasured by their master. The sounds they made fascinated me, and drew myself into the world of Kyogen. When I happen to be listening my fellow Kyogen actors acting in this scene, I always have a strong urge to hear what kind of sounds they will make. All Kyogen actors make different sounds, and that is the part of fascination in Kyogen.
In this archive, I make both sounds by myself, but on the actual stage, two actors performanig the roles of Tarokaja and Jirokaja make these sounds ﾔGualalinﾕ and ﾔchi~nﾕ respectively. I prefer making the latter sound. But all of my perfromance depends on how Tarokaja, the leading role, will say ﾔGualalinﾕ, as the sound of ﾔchi~nﾕ is to be made in response to the first sound. So the responsibility of Tarokaja, though not showing on stage, is definitely bigger than Jirokaja.
