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Shakkyō (Stone Bridge) : Details

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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