Kochō (Butterfly) : Details
| Schools | Performed by three schools (the Kanze, Hosho, and Kongoh) | |
| Category | The third group Noh, kazura-mono | |
| Author | Kanze Kojirō Nobumitsu | |
| Subject | Unknown | |
| Season | Spring (February in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scenes | Ichijō Ōmiya in Kyoto | |
| Tsukurimono | A plum tree | |
| Characters | Mae-shite | Woman in Kyoto |
| Nochi-shite | Spirit of Butterfly | |
| Waki | Traveling monk | |
| Ai | Neighbor | |
| Masks | Mae-shite | Wakaonna, Ko-omote, Zō, etc. |
| Nochi-shite | Ko-omote, Zō, Nakizō, etc. | |
| Costumes | Mae-shite | kazura (wig), kazura-obi (belt for a wig), karaori (a short-sleeved kimono outer robe worn by female characters) 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 | kuro-tare (a black wig with hair extending slightly longer than the shoulder), chōkanmuri (a crown with a butterfly ornament), chōken (an unlined, long-sleeved elegant garment worn by dancing female characters) (maiginu), kitsuke / surihaku, hakama in ōkuchi-style (colored), koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. | |
| Waki | sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), kitsuke / muji-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with no pattern, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), koshi-obi, a fan, Buddhist prayer beads, and a sedge rain hat. | |
| Ai | naga-kamishimo (tops and bottoms of kimono with long hakama style trousers) | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 10 minutes | |
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