Kurozuka/Adachigahara : Details
| Schools | All five. It is called “Adachigahara” in the Kanze school while is “Kurozuka” in the other schools. | |
| Category | a fifth group noh, kirinoh-mono ; inori-mono | |
| Author | Unknown (According to tradition, the author could be Konparu Zenchiku or Zeami.) | |
| Subject | “Shūishū” | |
| Season | Autumn (August in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scenes | Adachigahara in Iwashiro Province | |
| Tsukurimono | a hut with bush clover (shibaya) in front of small and large hand drums. A spinning wheel at the center front of the stage. | |
| Characters | Mae-shite | a woman living in Adachigahara |
| Nochi-shite | a female ogre | |
| Waki | Ajari Yūkei, affiliated with Tōkōbō in Nachi | |
| Waki-tsure | a mountain priest, accompanying Yūkei | |
| Ai | a temple servant following the mountain priest | |
| Masks | Mae-shite | Fukai, Ōmionna, or Shakumi |
| Nochi-shite | Han’nya | |
| Costumes | Mae-shite | kazura, kazura-obi (belt for a wig), karaori in kinagashi-style, kitsuke / surihaku. |
| Nochi-shite | a headband with color, a long red wig, awase-happi (lined happi-style kimono), kitsuke / atsuita, hangire (a type of hakama trousers), koshi-obi (belt), a stick for beating, and some firewood on the shoulder. | |
| Waki | tokin (headdress worn by mountain priests and tengu goblins), suzukake (ball-shaped decorations for the costume of mountain priests), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke/atsuita with a large check pattern, hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshi-obi, a small sword, a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. | |
| Waki-tsure | similar to waki, except kitsuke / muji-noshime (noshime-style kimono with no pattern). | |
| Ai | nōriki-zukin (a hood for a temple servant), mizugoromo, kitsuke / muji-noshime, kukuri-bakama (a way of wearing hakama trousers, tucking the bottoms up at the knee with a string), koshi-obi, and a pair of gaiters. | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 20 minutes | |
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