Matsukaze (Breeze through the Pines) : Details
| Schools | All five schools | |
| Category | A third-group Noh | |
| Author | Revised by Zeami (It may have been based on a dengaku-noh drama, “Shiokumi,” and revised by Kannami first as “Matsukaze Murasame” and further revised by Zeami.) | |
| Subject | Two poems composed by Ariwara no Yukihira in the “Kokinshū.” The story of Yukihira secluded in Suma in volume eight of “Senshūshō” and a story in the “Tale of Genji”. | |
| Season | Autumn (September in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scenes | Suma Bay in Settsu Province | |
| Characters | Shite (lead part) | The ghost of Matsukaze |
| Tsure (the companion of shite) | The ghost of Murasame | |
| Waki (supporting cast) | A traveling monk | |
| Ai (interluding cast) | A local resident in Suma Bay | |
| Masks | Shite | Wakaonna, Ko’omote, Zō, etc |
| Tsure | Ko’omote | |
| Costumes | Shite | kazura (wig), kazura-obi (belt for a wig), white mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / surihaku, koshimaki / nuihaku, koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. Later, puts on chōken and kazaori-eboshi (eboshi-style headdress) when changing the costume on the stage. |
| Tsure | kazura, kazura-obi, white mizugoromo, kitsuke / surihaku, koshimaki / nuihaku, koshi-obi, and a fan. Holds a pail. | |
| 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. | |
| Ai | kamishimo-style kimono for kyogen-kata, kitsuke/dan-noshime (noshime-style kimono with very wide stripes), a small sword, and a fan. | |
| Number of scenes | One | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 50 minutes | |
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