Nisegane Kanman Hikyaku Oogatari Manuke Nakauri Kanzo Okui No Chikagoro Tatsutagawa Hiki

Inspired by

A1: Tamekawa Munesuke 2: Tsutsukawa Hanji 3: Nagakawa Shimegosansuke B1: Nakamura Jusuke (Reselection)
"Horikawa," "Oshun Denbei," "Recently, Kawara no Tatehiki" (1782)
Annotated by Kuroki Kanzo

Synopsis
Overview
Commonly Known/Alternatively Named: "Horikawa," "Oshun Denbei"
Genre: Sewamono (Japanese traditional drama, Gidayu-bushi)
Premiered: Spring 1782 (Tenmei 2), Gaikiza Theater, Edo
Key Points: Naka no Maki (Chu no Maki) (Commonly Known as "Horikawa Sarumawashi no Dan")

Takiguchi Sanai and Yokobuchi Kanzaemon, accountants of the Kameyama domain, are visiting Kyoto. Kanzaemon is a villain who plots to forcibly buy off Oshun (known as "Kashiyun" or "Otayun" in the text), a Gion courtesan who is deeply in love with Denbei, the young master of Izutsuya.
Denbei prepares 300 ryo to save Oshun, but Izutsuya's clerk Manpachi, middleman Kanzo, and Kanzaemon conspire to trap Denbei. Kanzaemon pretends to accept 300 ryo as payment for a "famous sword tsuba (Yatsuhashi tsuba)," while Manpachi and Kanzo give Denbei counterfeit money.
When Denbei realizes the money is fake, he becomes enraged and attacks Kanzo and the others, but Takiguchi Sanai intervenes. Sanai, who was indebted to Denbei's father, Kizaemon, strongly advises him to prevent Denbei from being investigated by the magistrate's office (arrested by officials) and to refrain from being unfilial and dissolute.
Meanwhile, Kanzaemon and his men split the 300 ryo they swindled, and give 100 of them to the owner of the age-house (Rokuzaemon) as a deposit for Oshun's redemption.

Ageya Scene:
While Kanzaemon is having fun at the age-house, imitating plays (kyogen) with the flatterers and waitresses, he plots to forcibly drive a wedge between Denbei and Oshun and move forward with the redemption deal.

Excerpts from the actual script

Yay~
Yay~
The great story of the counterfeit money thief
The great story of the counterfeit money thief

A funny, then sad, Horikawa
A funny, then sad, Horikawa
A monkey-turned-act
A monkey-turned-act
The escape of evil and disaster
A happy occasion, a happy occasion at the corner

A slow-paced kyogen
A slow-paced kyogen
A courier from the country
A courier from the country
A foolish one
A foolish one