Shosho

Wong steals the show as Shosho, a scullery maid in the club who becomes the star attraction.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

Shosho came faithfully, night after night; he even missed Toyo no Akari, the Harvest Vigil Festival that no courtier would normally dream of missing.

Sotoba Komachi 1978

According to legend, Komachi promised Shosho she would yield to him if he would appear before her house each night for a hundred nights.

Sotoba Komachi 1978

Komachi's suitor is Shii no Shosho, also known as Fukakusa no Shosho, the 'Captain from Deepgrass.'

Sotoba Komachi 1978

For not only has Shosho kept Komachi bound to the wheel of birth-and-death, but it is desire's endless pursuit of ever elusive perfection that keeps the wheel turning.

Sotoba Komachi 1978

The words which follow suggest the plight of her lover Shosho when he travelled to her house "a hundred nights all but one," to cut his notch on the bench.

Sotoba Komachi 1922

Kwanami wrote another play, Shii no Shosho, 3 in which Shosho is the principal character and Komachi the tsure or subordinate.

Sotoba Komachi 1922

The spirit of her lover Shosho has now entirely possessed her: this "possession-scene" lasts very much longer on the stage than the brief words would suggest.

Sotoba Komachi 1922

There is another play of Ono and Shosho called Kayoi Komachi, "Komachi Going"; it is by a Minoru, and Umewaka acted it on November 19, 1899; and it was followed by Suma Genji.

Sotoba Komachi 1916

You think because you see me alone now that I was in want of a handsome man in the old days, when Shosho came with the others -- Shii no Shosho of Fukakusa [Deep Grass] that came to me in the moonlight and in the dark night and in the nights flooded with rain, and in the black face of the wind and in the wild swish of the snow.

Sotoba Komachi 1916