Kogō : Details
| Schools | All five. | |
| Category | Fourth group Noh | |
| Author | Komparu Zenchiku | |
| Subject | “Kogō” in Volume six, “Heike Monogatari (the Tale of the Heike)” | |
| Season | Autumn (August in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scene | The house of Minamoto no Nakakuni in Kyoto; Sagano in Kyoto | |
| Tsukurimono | a single folding door, brushwood fence | |
| Characters | Shite | Minamoto no Nakakuni |
| Tsure | Kogō | |
| Tsure | Female attendant | |
| Waki | Imperial messenger | |
| Ai | Owner of the house | |
| Masks | Tsure (Kogō) | Ko-omote |
| Tsure | Ko-omote | |
| Costumes | Shite | First Half: Okina-eboshi (eboshi style headdress for old men) (holding with a belt made of entwined Kanze-yori cord) / black kazaori-eboshi (eboshi-style headdress), unlined kariginu-style kimono / tops and bottoms of hitatare (kimono for warriors), kitsuke / atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white or pale yellow) / komi-ōkuchi (underwear hakama in ōkuchi-style), (koshi-obi (belt)), (a small sword). Second Half: Okina-eboshi (holding with a belt made of entwined Kanze-yori cord) / black kazaori-eboshi, chōken (an unlined, long-sleeved elegant garment worn by dancing female characters) / unlined kariginu-style kimono, kitsuke / atsuita, hakama in ōkuchi-style (white or pale yellow), koshi-obi, (a small sword), a fan, and a whip. |
| Tsure (Kogō) | Kazura (wig), kazura-obi (belt for a wig), karaori (a short-sleeved kimono outer robe worn by female characters), kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), and a fan. | |
| Tsure | kazura, kazura-obi, karaori, kitsuke / surihaku, and a fan. | |
| Waki | hora-eboshi (eboshi style headdress worn by stately roles), awase-kariginu (a lined long-sleeved style kimono worn by male characters, especially gods and other dignified characters), kitsuke / atsuita, hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshi-obi, a fan, and a letter. | |
| Ai | binan-kazura (a white cloth to wrap around the head of a kyogen performer), haku-no-kosode (a kosode style kimono decorated with gold and silver foils), and onna-obi (belt for women). | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 20 minutes | |
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