Tōru : Details
| Schools | All five | |
| Category | The Fifth group noh, kirinoh-mono, hayamai-mono | |
| Author | Zeami | |
| Subject | Episode eighty-one of Ise Monogatari (Tale of Ise), Kokin-shū | |
| Season | Autumn (August in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scenes | Kyoto, deserted mansion at Rokujō-kawara | |
| Characters | Mae-shite | Old man coming to lave brine |
| Nochi-shite | The ghost of Minamoto no Tōru (or Minister Tōru) | |
| Waki | A traveling monk | |
| Ai | Man living near Rokujō | |
| Masks | Mae-shite | Waraijō, Asakurajō, Sankōjō |
| Nochi-shite | Chūjō, Imawaka | |
| Costumes | Mae-shite | jō-kami (wig for old man’s character), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / muji-noshime (noshime style kimono with no pattern), koshi-obi (belt), koshimino (straw skirt) and a fan. Carrying buckets (to scoop water) on a pole. |
| Nochi-shite | iro-hachimaki (colored head band), uikanmuri (a headdress for emperors, nobles, or aged deities), unlined kariginu-style kimono, kitsuke / nuihaku (kitsuke / surihaku), sashinuki (a pair of long hakama style trousers tucked at the knee with strings), komi-ōkuchi (underwear hakama in ōkuchi-style), koshi-obi, and a fan. | |
| Waki | sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), mizugoromo, kitsuke / muji-noshime, koshi-obi, and a fan. Buddhist prayer beads. | |
| Ai | naga-kamishimo (tops and bottoms of kimono with long hakama style trousers) | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 30 minutes | |
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