English Title: Kurawanka
Japanese Title: くらわんか
Romanized Title: Kurawanka

Troupe: Flower
Year: 2005
Performances: Bow Hall, 1/2 - 2/6

Based On:
Author/Director: Tani Masazumi
Composer: Yoshizaki Kenji
Choreographer: Yamamura Waka

Available on DVD: Yes (release date 7/27/2012)

Role	1/2 - 1/7	1/8 - 1/11	1/13 - 1/18	1/28 - 2/1	2/3 - 2/6
Hachigorou (kurawanka boatman)	Ranju Tomu	Ranju Tomu	Ranju Tomu	Aine Harei	Aine Harei
Umegawa (former prostitute)	Jou Hiroe
Jinbee (landlord)	Natori Rei
Bimbōgami (God of the Poor)	Hanagata Hikaru	Asaka Manato	Nozomi Fuuto	Hanagata Hikaru	Yuuzumi Shun
Koito (ghost of a former prostitute)	Umesaki Ibu	Kashiro Kiho	Sakura Ichika	Shiou Miyabi	Umesaki Ibu
Enyōhaku (Hachigorou's new wife)	Sakurano Ayane	Hatsuhime Saaya	Sakurano Ayane	Sakura Ichika	Kashiro Kiho
Tokubee (Jinbee's son)	Asaka Manato	Amamiya Nao	Hanagata Hikaru	Nozomi Fuuto	Asaka Manato
Ohatsu (a missing prostitute?)	Sakura Ichika	Shiou Miyabi	Kashiro Kiho	Hatsuhime Saaya	Sakurano Ayane
Yasubee (a samurai's boatman)	Mineki Ayato	Shihou Nanami	Yuuzumi Shun	Mineki Ayato	Uraki Hiroto
Unosuke (a clerk of Jinbee's)	Shihou Nanami	Uraki Hiroto	Mineki Ayato	Shihou Nanami	Amamiya Nao
Gensuke (a samurai's boatman)	Shiyou Rene	Hinata San	Yuugiri Rai	Shiyou Rene	Hinata San
Kiroku (a samurai's boatman)	Hinata San	Hatsuki Yoshiya	Kouga Asahi	Mineno Kazuma	Yuuna Hayaki
Mokubee (a samurai's boatman)	Yuuna Hayaki	Shiyou Rene	Mineno Kazuma	Yuugiri Rai	Hatsuki Yoshiya
Osato (a maid of Jinbee's)	Hanasaki Ririka	Nanase Kira	Miono Seira	Ryou Kagura	Seika Mai
Osaki (Yasubee's wife)	Nanase Kira	Seika Mai	Mebuki Yukina	Nanase Kira	Hanasaki Ririka

WARNING!! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!

Hachigorou, a boatman for Kurawanka Shipping, is a lazy person by nature, but he's lived a hard life. Although he's fallen out of love with his wife, run away, and become a divorced man, he charms Jinbee, the owner of the boatman's inn, to take him on as a free-loader. It's a day-to-day existence, where he lives off of guilting his acquaintances into giving him small change to use when he's pressed to repay his debts.

Unable to just watch all this, Jinbee approaches him with a marriage proposal. The match is with Enyōhaku, a servant of the nobility, whose sole flaw, he says, is that her speech is overly polite. Unable to imagine politeness being a flaw, Hachigorou joyfully accepts.

As Hachigorou joyfully waits for his coming bride, the God of the Poor appears before him. The God's job is to make the rich who are obsessed with riches poor, yet he's faint of heart so he ends up sticking to his friends and avoiding Hachigorou. Instead of causing Hachigorou to become obsessed, instead he pesters Hachigorou for money, and entraps him into waiting on him hand and foot.

Then Jinbee and the God of the Poor become matchmakers and on the night of the wedding to Enyōhaku one more bride appears. The ghost of Koito....

Hachigorou, watching others enjoy the cherry blossoms, doesn't want to be amused like everyone else, and so he goes off to enjoy visiting some graves. He fixes a broken stupa and holds a small service for the ghost of Koito. Moved by his kindness, the ghost of Koito wants to become his wife to return the favor.

By day the Enyōhaku, by night the ghost Koito, and the God of the Poor disguising himself as a maidservant.... Hachigorou's new life is about to begin....


Last show for Jou Hiroe.


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