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Shunkan/Kikaigashima : Details

Schools	All five. In the Kita School this is called “Kikaigashima” while it is called “Shunkan” in the other four.
Category	the Fourth group Noh, ninjō-mono
Author	Unknown
Subject	Volumes two and three of the Tales of the Heike, and volumes nine and ten of “Genpei Jōsuiki”
Season	Autumn (September in the lunar calendar)
Scenes	Maeba	Kyoto in the early autumn in 1178
Scenes	Nochiba	September in the same year, Kikaigashima Island (present -day Mishima village in Ōshima-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture)
Tsukurimono	a boat
Characters	Shite	Shunkan
	Waki	Messenger
	Tsure	Fujiwara no Naritsune
	Tsure	Taira no Yasuyori
	Ai	servant
Masks	Shite	Shunkan (exclusively used for this Noh drama)
Costumes	Shite	sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), hana-bōshi (a hood for a nun or eminent monk), tō-bōshi (a hood for a Chinese and an old man), or a long black wig; brown mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / noshime without patterns (noshime-style kimono) or kitsuke / atsuita with patterns , koshimino (skirt made of seaweed), koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. Holding a pail.
	Waki	tops and bottoms of suō (unlined hemp kimono for warrior’s daily wear), kitsuke / dan-noshime (noshime style kimono with very wide stripes), a small sword, and a fan. Puts a letter in the chest of his kimono later.
	Tsure (Naritsune)	mizugoromo, kitsuke / noshime without patterns, koshi-obi, and a fan.
	Tsure (Yasuyori)	sumi-bōshi, mizugoromo, kitsuke / noshime without patterns, koshi-obi, a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads.
	Ai	tops and bottoms of kimono for kyogen-kata, kitsuke /noshimei with striped patterns, koshi-obi, and a fan. Carries a pole later.
Number of scenes	Two
Length	About 1 hour and 30 minutes

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