Fuji (Wisteria) : Details
| Schools | Kanze, Kongoh, and Hōshō schools | |
| Category | The third group Noh, Kazura-mono (with drum music) | |
| Author | Unknown | |
| Subject | Unknown | |
| Season | Spring (March in the lunar calendar), the season that the wisteria is in bloom | |
| Scenes | Tagonoura in Etchū Province | |
| Tsukurimono | A prop of a pine tree decorated with flowering wisteria | |
| Characters | Mae-shite | Village woman |
| Nochi-shite | Spirit of the wisteria flower | |
| Waki | Traveling monk | |
| Waki-tsure | Two fellow monks in lesser standing (they do not appear, depending on school) | |
| Ai | Villager | |
| Masks | Mae-shite | Zō, Wakaonna, Fukai, or Ko-omote |
| Nochi-shite | Zō, Wakaonna, Fukai, or Ko-omote | |
| Costumes | Mae-shite | kazura (wig), kazura-obi (band for a wig), karaori (a short-sleeved outer kimono worn by female characters) with scarlet patterns in “kinagashi”-style, kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), and a fan |
| Nochi-shite | kuro-tare (a black wig with hair extending slightly longer than the shoulder), tengan (crown for celestial beings and female court ladies), chōken (an elegant, unlined, long-sleeved garment worn by dancing female characters), kitsuke / surihaku, hakama (kimono-style trousers) in ōkuchi-style (scarlet) or scarlet-patterned nuihaku (a short-sleeved kimono with embroidery and gold or silver flakes applied to the fabric) wrapped around the waist, koshi-obi (belt), and a fan | |
| Waki | sumi-bōshi (a hood for regular Buddhist monks), kitsuke / muji-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with no pattern, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white) (not worn, depending on the school), koshi-obi, a fan, and Buddhist prayer beads | |
| Waki-tsure | the same as Waki | |
| Ai | Naga-kamishimo (A long-sleeved kimono with matching top and bottom worn by male characters) with bottoms of naga-bakama (a long hakama-style trousers) | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 20 minutes | |
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