Eguchi : Details
| Schools | All five. | |
| Category | The Third Group Noh, kazura-mono | |
| Author | Kannami (Revised by Zeami in later day) | |
| Subject | “Senjū-shō (Anthology of Buddhist Stories),” “Jikkin-shō (Stories of Ten Lessons),” and “Koji-dan (Collection of Ancient Narratives),” etc. | |
| Season | Autumn (September in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scene | Eguchi in Settsu Province | |
| Tsukurimono | A pleasure boat | |
| Characters | Mae-shite | Village Woman |
| Nochi-shite | Ghost of Madam Eguchi | |
| Tsure | Two Female Attendants | |
| Waki | Itinerant Monk | |
| Waki-tsure | Two Monks Following the Monk | |
| Ai | Villager | |
| Masks | Shite | Wakaonna, zō, fukai, or ko-omote |
| Tsure | Ko-omote | |
| Costumes | Mae-shite | Kazura (wig), kazura-obi (band for a wig), karaori (a short-sleeved kimono outer robe worn by female characters) worn in kinagashi-style, kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), and a fan. |
| Nochi-shite | Kazura, kazura-obi, karaori worn in tsuboori-style, kitsuke / surihaku, hakama in ōkuchi-style (scarlet), koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. | |
| Tsure | Kazura, kazura-obi, karaori worn in kinagashi-style, kitsuke / surihaku, hakama in ōkuchi-style (scarlet),koshi-obi. (One of the two tsures makes one shoulder off of her karaori kimono and holds a pole). | |
| Waki | Sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / kogōshi-atsuita (thickly-woven kimono with small check pattern) or muji-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with no pattern), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshi-obi, Buddhist prayer beads, and a fan. | |
| Waki-tsure | Sumi-bōshi, mizugoromo, kitsuke / muji-noshime, hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshi-obi, Buddhist prayer beads, and a fan. | |
| Ai | Kitsuke / dan-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with very wide stripes, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), tops and bottoms of kimono for kyogen-kata, koshi-obi, a small sword, and a fan. | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 2 hours | |
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