世話物

• 読み: せわもの
• ローマ字: sewamono
• 漢字の分解: 世 (se/yo) — world, era; 話 (wa) — talk, affairs; 物 (mono) — thing, genre
• 発音: /se.wa.mo.no/

意味

Domestic drama; contemporary-life play. A genre of kabuki or puppet theatre depicting the everyday lives of common people in the Edo period.

One of the two major kabuki genres, the other being 時代物 (jidaimono — historical dramas). 世話物 focuses on the lives, loves, and conflicts of merchants, artisans, and townspeople, using colloquial language and plots involving scandal, love suicide, or financial ruin. Chikamatsu Monzaemon was the foremost author of this genre, and his domestic tragedies are still performed today.

例文

1. 世話物の舞台には、庶民の哀愁と情念がリアルに描かれている。
2. 近松門左衛門の世話物は、当時の町人社会を鮮明に映し出している。
3. 歌舞伎教室で世話物と時代物の違いを初めて理解した。

使い方ガイド

場面: kabuki, theatre studies, literary history

トーン: scholarly

起源と歴史

From 世話 (sewa — care, everyday matters, worldly affairs) and 物 (mono — thing, genre/work). The term distinguishes works dealing with the contemporary 'real world' from the elevated world of historical or warrior-class dramas.

文化的背景

時代: Edo period

世代: Theatre students, traditional arts audiences

社会的背景: Cultural