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Schools |
All five |
Category |
The Fifth group noh, kirinoh-mono |
Author |
Unknown |
Subject |
Unknown |
Season |
Summer (April) |
Scenes |
Mount Shōryōzen in China (in present Shanxi Province) |
Tsukurimono |
Two or three ichijō-dai (a wooden frame 6 feet in length, 3 feet 4 inches in width, and 4 or 8 inches in height, covered with gorgeous cloth) decorated with red and white peony flowers. |
Characters |
Mae-shite (the first half lead part)
(or tsure: the companion of shite) |
Woodcutter boy |
Nochi-shite (the second half lead part) (shite) |
Lion |
Waki (supporting cast) |
Monk Jakushō |
Ai (interluding part) |
An ascetic |
Masks |
Mae-shite (tsure) |
Dōji |
Nochi-shite (shite) |
Shishiguchi |
Ai |
Hanabiki |
Costumes |
Mae-shite (tsure) |
a long black wig, mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / nuihaku, koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. |
Nochi-shite (shite) |
a long red wig, happi-style kimono, kitsuke / atsuita karaori (thick outer robes), hangire (a type of hakama), and koshi-obi. |
Waki |
shamon-bōshi (a hood for high-class monks) or sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), kara (a piece of square cloth worn over other clothes by Buddhism priests), mizugoromo, kitsuke / kogōshi-atsuita (thickly woven kimono with small check patterns), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshi-obi, fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. |
Ai |
mizugoromo, kukuri-bakama (a style of wearing hakama trousers, tucking the bottoms up at the knee with string), and a pair of gaiters. |
Number of scenes |
Two |
Length |
About 1 hour and 30 minutes |

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