Kawachi Ondo Hozou Collection 9

[Machine Translation] During the reign of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun of Edo (1603-1868), the country was in the midst of a period of cultural prosperity, but politics and economics were beginning to show signs of slackening. One of Kikusuimaru Kawachiya's specialties is reading the human story of Oishi Kuranosuke and Kira Uenosuke's revenge on the Ako Ronin in the style of "Kawachi Ondo" (Kawachi-no-Odo) with a passionate tone. After the death of the third shogun, Iemitsu Iemitsu, the situation at castles across the country became unstable as the number of ronin who lost in the Battle of Sekigahara overflowed the country. At that time, Yui Masayuki, a military scholar of the Kusunoki school who opened a school in Edo to criticize the shogunate and help the ronin, appeared as a rebel plotting to overthrow the shogunate. The song is also popularized as a kodan story.

江戸五代将軍 徳川綱吉時代華やかな文化の燗熟期の反面、政治・経済に次第に緩みを見せはじめる。大石内蔵助・吉良上野介の赤穂浪士討ち入りの人間模様を「河内音頭」にのせ熱き口調で読み上げる河内家菊水丸の得意ネタのひとつ。また、三代将軍家光の亡き後、関が原の合戦に敗れた浪人ものが全国に溢れ出し、全国城下の情勢もただならぬ状況をみせてきた。その折、幕府への批判と浪人者達の救済を掲げ、江戸に塾を開いた楠流軍学者・由井正雪が幕府転覆をたくらむ謀反人として登場し丸橋忠也などを加え面白さ倍増の河内音頭。講談ネタとしても流布。