노(能)에 그려진 「기다리는 여인들」의 恨

Some of the Noh work by Zeami is about a heroine waiting for her husband. Among these works, in this thesis, I considered the heroine’s mentality in Noh 『Izutsu』 and 『Kinuta』, especially the nature of the heroine’s deep resentment. The research showed that the two works are different in terms of the manner in which the heroine expresses her deep resentment. In Noh 『Izutsu』, the heroine’s deep resentment was expressed covertly, rather than explicitly. In contrast, in Noh 『Kinuta』, the heroine’s deep resentment was expressed explicitly and her resentment of her husband was expressed very directly and blatantly. Although the heroine of Noh 『Izutsu』 was sentenced to the fate that she should wait for her husband forever, the heroine of Noh 『Kinuta』 unexpectedly attains Buddhahood easily and she is not paid to remain a 「waiting woman」. Because Noh 『Kinuta』 is a work that appeared much later than Noh 『Izutsu』, I consider the writer Zeami to possibly have had some change of personal thinking about the 「waiting woman」, and it is very interesting that this is suspected to be the basis of the signs of change.