Komatsuza 156th performance “Nakimushi-Namaiki-IshikawaTakuboku”
Business Overview
Written by Hisashi INOUE, directed by Jin UYAMA
In the early summer of 1912, a year after Takuboku's death, his wife Setsuko stayed at the detached villa of an acquaintance in Boso, Chiba with their eldest daughter Kyoko to recuperate. Her husband Takuboku strictly ordered her to burn everything to the ground when she died. Holding the 15 diary entries in her university notebook, Setsuko begins to read the diary of Takuboku's last 3 years. With the sound of Setsuko's voice, the stage moves back to the Takuboku family's home in July 1909, in a 6-tatami room on the second floor of Kinotoko, a barber shop in Yumi-cho, Hongo Ward, Tokyo.
In addition to poverty and a serious illness such as pulmonary tuberculosis, Takuboku's "real life hand-to-hand combat" begins with a quarrel with his wife and mother, a drunken father who moves in, and a Christian sister who is critical of his brother ・・・ He is burdened with misfortunes and troubles.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, December 5, 2025 ~ 21st (Sun)
- Venues
- Kinokuniya Southern Theater TAKASHIMAYA (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
- Viewing Support Contents
- Lending script tablets, audio guides, wheelchair seats
- Viewing Support Date and Time
- Script tablet rental
Saturday, December 6, 2025 to 20th (Sat)
Audio guide rental
Thursday, December 11, 2025 day and night performances
Wheelchair seats
All performances
Profile
[Komatsuza]
Inoue Hisashi, an author and playwright, established Komatsuza in 1983 as a member of the troupe, and the following year he launched the troupe with "Headache and Shoulder Sickness Higuchi Ichiyo." Since then, he has specialized in making plays related to Hisashi INOUE. His recent works include the 2003 Yomiuri Engeki Taisho Award for Best Film (), the 2010 Yomiuri Engeki Taisho Award for Arts Honorary Prize (Hisashi INOUE), the 2012 Kinokuniya Engeki Taisho Award for Group Prize (the stage performance of '77 Festival 2012 on the birth of Hisashi INOUE'), the 2016 Yomiuri Engeki Taisho Award for Best Film ("Manzana, my city"), and many others.