Schools |
All five |
Category |
The third group Noh |
Author |
Unknown |
Subject |
Based on the legends associated with Mount Kazuraki written in “Nihon Ryōiki” and “Genpei Jōsui-ki (Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Genji and Heike Clans)” |
Season |
Winter (November in the lunar calendar) |
Scenes |
Mount Kazuraki in Yamato Province (present-day Nara Prefecture) |
Tsukurimono |
a straw hut, a palanquin |
Characters |
Mae-shite |
A Woman |
Nochi-shite |
Deity Kazuraki |
Waki |
Mountain priest in Mount Haguro |
Waki-tsure |
Two accompanying mountain priests |
Ai |
Villager |
Masks |
Mae-shite |
Fukai, Zō, Shakumi, etc. |
Nochi-shite |
Masukami, Nakizō, Ko-omote, etc. |
Costumes |
Mae-shite |
kazura (wig), kazura-obi (belt for a wig), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), koshimaki / nuihaku, koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. Holding a cane and carrying a bundle of dried twigs covered with snow (white cotton which looks like snow) on his back. Also, wearing a sedge rain hat. |
Nochi-shite |
tengan (crown for celestial bodies and female court ladies) decorated with vine, kuro-tare (a black wig with hair extending slightly longer than the shoulder), chōken or maiginu (wide-sleeved kimono for female gods), kitsuke / surihaku, hakama in ōkuchi-style (colored), koshi-obi, and a fan. |
Waki |
tokin (a headdress worn by a mountain priest or a tengu [long-nosed goblin]), mizugoromo, kitsuke / ōgōshi-atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters, with large checkered pattern) or kogōshi-atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters, with small checkered pattern), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshiobi, suzukake (bobbles for the costume of mountain priests), a small sword, fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. |
Waki-tsure |
tokin, mizugoromo, kitsuke / atsuita or kitsuke / muji-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with no pattern, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshiobi, suzukake, a small sword, fan, and Buddhist prayer beads. |
Ai |
kyōgen-naga-kamishimo (tops and bottoms of kimono with long hakama style trousers) |
Number of scenes |
Two |
Length |
About 1 hour and 40 minutes |