Kakitsubata (Water Iris) : Details
| Schools | All five schools | |
| Category | Third group noh, Kazura-mono (with drum) | |
| Author | Unknown (According to accounts, Zeami, or Komparu Zenchiku) | |
| Subject | Ise Monogatari (Tale of Ise) | |
| Season | Summer (the Fourth Month of the lunar calendar) | |
| Scenes | At Yatsuhashi in Mikawa Province in early summer, the season when the water iris is in full bloom. | |
| Characters | Shite | A woman (Female spirit of the water iris) |
| Waki | Traveling monk | |
| Masks | Shite | Wakaonna, Fukai, Ko’omote, or Zō |
| Costumes | Shite | kazura, kazura-obi, karaori in “kinagashi”-style, kitsuke / surihaku, nuihaku / koshimaki, koshi-obi (belt), and a fan.
When shite changes costume on the stage, he or she changes from karaori into chōken and puts on uikamuri (the headdress for emperors, nobles, or aged deities) and decorates both sides above the ears with oikake (black, brush-like decoration for low-ranked male nobles). Occasionally wears a decorative sword. |
| Waki | sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke/muji-noshime (noshime style kimono with no patterns), koshi-obi, a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. | |
| Number of scenes | One | |
| Length | 1 hour and 10 minutes | |
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