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資料解説
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2016文化財ウィーク(52)「大星から武器類一式の調達を依頼された回船屋・天河（川）屋義平は、女房と離縁し、我が子の命にかえても秘密を守ろうとします。ここでの名台詞(めいせりふ)が「天河屋義平は男でござる」。武士に劣らぬ町人の義心が感じられるこの段は、江戸時代に非常に人気がありました。物語はフィクションで、モデルは実在する大坂の商人の天野屋利兵衛ともいわれています。しかし、彼と赤穂藩との関係は見出されていません。（Kanadehon Chūshingura, Act 10）Shipping merchant Amagawaya Gihei, who has been commissioned by Ōboshi to procure all of the weapons and equipment for the revenge plot, has divorced his wife and is even prepared to forfeit the life of his own children to keep the plot a secret. In this scene, he recites the famous line “Amagawaya Gihei is a man of honor.” This act of the play demonstrated that the honorable spirit of commoners was in no way inferior to that of the samurai, and was subsequently very popular during the Edo period.」
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