Zegai : Details
| Schools | All five. In Japanese, Zegai is written with the characters 是界 in the Komparu, Hōsho, and Kita schools, 善界 in the Kanze school, and 是我意 in the Kongoh school. | |
| Category | The Fifth Group Noh, kiri-noh mono | |
| Author | Takeda Hōin Jōsei | |
| Subject | Konjaku Monogatari (Anthology of Tales from the Past), Zegai-bō Emaki (Picture Scroll of the Tale of Zegai-bō), etc. | |
| Season | Unknown | |
| Scene | Maeba | Mount Atago in Yamashiro Province |
| Nochiba | Mount Hiei in Ōmi Province | |
| Tsukurimono | Carriage | |
| Characters | Mae-shite | Zegai-bō |
| Nochi-shite | Tengu | |
| Tsure | Tarō-bō | |
| Waki | Abbot of Mount Hiei | |
| Waki-tsure | Retainers of the Abbot (two) | |
| Ai | Messenger from the temple | |
| Masks | Nochi-shite | Ōbeshimi |
| Costumes | Mae-shite | Tokin (a type of headdress worn by mountain priests or tengu), suzukake (bobbles on the costume of mountain ascetics), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters), ōkuchi-style hakama (white), koshi-obi (belt), (a small sword,) a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. |
| Nochi-shite | Long red wig (kindon-hachimaki (a headband in gold)), ōtokin (tokin headdress worn by tengu characters), awase-kariginu (a lined long-sleeved kimono worn by male characters, especially gods and other dignified characters), kitsuke / atsuita, hangire (a type of hakama trousers worn by mighty characters such as demons, gods, and warriors), koshi-obi, and hauchiwa (a fan for tengu). | |
| Tsure | Tokin, suzukake, mizugoromo, kitsuke / atsuita or muji-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with no pattern, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), ōkuchi-style hakama (white), koshi-obi, (a small sword,) a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. | |
| Waki | Shamon-bōshi (a hood for high-ranking monks), kara (a piece of square cloth worn over other clothes by Buddhism priests), mizugoromo, kitsuke / atsuita, ōkuchi-style hakama (white), koshi-obi, a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. | |
| Waki-tsure | Sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), mizugoromo, kitsuke / atsuita or muji-noshime, ōkuchi-style hakama (white), koshi-obi, a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. | |
| Ai | Nōriki-zukin (a hood for a temple servant), mizugoromo, kitsuke / shima-noshime (short-sleeved noshime-style kimono with stripes), kukuri-bakama (a way of wearing hakama trousers, tucking the bottoms up at the knee with strings), koshi-obi, a pair of gaiters, and a fan. Holding a broom made of bushclover, upon which is tied a letter. | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 1 hour 20 minutes | |
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