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Unna Nabi

The outline of the story

In the first half of the eighteenth century, in the reign of King Shokei, was the golden age of Okinawan culture. Not only samurai but some of farmers' daughters composed poems of the Ryukyus. Now, Matsugane, a son of an Inspection House officer has the admiration of the girls of the village; including Nabi. But they cannot do anything because of the difference of the social postion. All they can do is just look at Matsugane from a distance. And when King Shokei stops by Manzamo in Unnamajiri on an inspection tour, he is adored and welcomed with dances. Nabe composes a poem, "Stop rolling, O waves, stop rolling! / Stop blowing, O wind, stop howling! / Now we hail with hearty welcome / Our gracious King from Shuri. (Translated by Buntaro Taira) This is a story of Unna Nabe who was a representative woman poet with Yushia Chiru in the age of Ryukyu Kingdom.

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Dramatized by Saburo Joo
Nabe's poem,"Under the pine
trees at UnEna / Asign commands: No Rendezvous! / Did they really expect it would / Stay the flow of our love"(Translated by Buntaro Taira) is sung when they dance 'Inohabushi' in which a girl's earnest love is expressed.

Typical theatrical company putting on a good performance of the play
Taishinza Okieiengeki
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