Koi no Omoni (The Deadweight of Love) : Details
| Schools | the Kanze and Komparu schools | |
| Category | The fourth group Noh, shūshin-otoko-mono | |
| Author | Zeami | |
| Subject | Unknown | |
| Season | Autumn (September in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scenes | Shirakawa-in Mansion in Kyoto | |
| Tsukurimono | Omoni (heavy package) | |
| Characters | Mae-shite | Old Man |
| Nochi-shite | Ghost of Yamashina no Shōji | |
| Tsure | Consort | |
| Waki | Retainer of Shirakawa-in | |
| Ai | Servant | |
| Masks | Mae-shite | Akobujō, Waraijō, etc. |
| Nochi-shite | Omoni-akujō, Hanakobu-akujō, etc. | |
| Tsure | Ko-omote | |
| Costumes | Mae-shite | jō-gami (wig for old man’s character), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / kogōshi-mehiki-or muji-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with small check pattern and fine lines or without patterns, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), koshi-obi (belt), and jō-ōgi (a fan used by monks or old characters) |
| Nochi-shite | shiro-gashira (long white wig worn by roles such as aged spirits), shiro-mizugoromo (white mizugoromo kimono), kitsuke / ironashi-atsuita (thickly-woven kimono with no rouge color used), koshi-obi, hangire (a type of hakama worn by strong characters such as demons, gods and warriors), happi-style kimono, and kase-zue (T-shape cane) | |
| Tsure | kazura (wig), iroiri-kazura-obi (band for a wig with rouge color), tengan (crown for celestial bodies and female court ladies), kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), hi-ōkuchi (hakama in ōkuchi-style (scarlet)), akaji-karaori (a red short-sleeved kimono outer robe worn by female characters) wore in tsuboori-style, koshi-obi, and kazura-ōgi (a fan used by a young female character) | |
| Waki | kazaori-eboshi (eboshi-style headdress), mizugoromo, kitsuke / dan-atsuita (thickly woven kosode type of kimono with very wide stripes), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), unlined kariginu-style kimono, koshi-obi, and kami-ōgi (a fan) | |
| Ai | naga-kamishimo (tops and bottoms of kimono with long hakama style trousers) | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About one hour | |
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