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Schools	All five
Category	The second group noh, shura-mono
Author	Unknown
Subject	Volume 11, “Konjaku Monogatari,” “Kiyomizu-dera Engi (Origin of Kiyomizu-dera Temple)” etc.
Season	Spring (March)
Scenes	Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto
Characters	Mae-shite (first half lead part)	Boy
	Nochi-shite (second half lead part)	Sakanoue no Tamuramaru (Tamuramaro)
	Waki (supporting cast)	Traveling monk
	Waki-tsure (companion of waki)	Following monks (two)
	Ai (interluding cast)	A man living in the town outside the gates of Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Masks	Mae-shite	Dōji, Jidō
Masks	Nochi-shite	Heida, Imawaka, Mikazuki
Costumes	Mae-shite	a long black wig, mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / nuihaku, koshi-obi (belt), a fan, and a broom of bushclover.
	Nochi-shite	nashi-uchieboshi (eboshi-style headdress for warriors), kuro-tare (a black wig with hair extending slightly longer than the shoulder), a white headband, happi-style kimono, kitsuke / atsuita with scarlet color, hangire (a type of hakama), koshi-obi, a fan, and a sword.
	Waki	sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), mizugoromo, kitsuke / muji-noshime (noshime -style kimono with no pattern), koshi-obi, a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads.
	Waki-tsure	Similar to waki
	Ai	nashiuchi-eboshi, mizugoromo, kukuri-bakama (a style of wearing hakama trousers, tucking its bottoms up at the knee with a string), and a pair of gaiters.
Number of scenes	Two
Length	1 hour and 20 minutes