Schools |
All five. |
Category |
The second group Noh, shura-mono |
Author |
Zeami |
Subject |
The Tale of the Heike, Volume 9 |
Season |
Spring (March in the lunar calendar) |
Scenes |
Suma Bay in Settsu Province |
Characters |
Mae-shite |
Old Man |
Nochi-shite |
The ghost of Taira no Tadanori |
Waki |
Traveling monk (man in service to Fujiwara no Shunzei) |
Waki-tsure |
Accompanying monks (2 or 3) |
Ai |
Villager |
Masks |
Mae-shite |
Waraijō, Asakuranojō, 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 (short-sleeved kimono with no pattern, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), koshi-obi (belt), a fan, a cane, and a leaf |
Nochi-shite |
kuro-tare (a black wig with hair extending slightly longer than the shoulder), nashiuchi-eboshi (eboshi-style headdress), a white headband, chōken (a unlined, long-sleeved elegant garment worn by dancing female characters) [or hitoe-happi (single-lined happi-style kimono)], kitsuke / atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters) [or kitsuke / karaori (a short-sleeved kimono outer robe worn by female characters), kitsuke / nuihaku], hakama in ōkuchi-style (white) [or colored], koshi-obi, a sword, a fan, and an arrow with a strip of paper |
Waki |
sumi-bōshi (a hood for ordinary Buddhist monks), mizugoromo, kitsuke / muji-noshime, koshi-obi, Buddhist prayer beads, and a fan |
Waki-tsure |
the same as Waki |
Ai |
kyōgen-kamishimo (tops and bottoms of kimono for kyōgen-kata) |
Number of scenes |
Two |
Length |
About 1 hour and 40 minutes |