Ashikari (The Reed Cutter) : Details
| Schools | All five | |
| Category | The Fourth Group Noh | |
| Author | Zeami Motokiyo | |
| Subject | Shūi-shū (The Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poetry), Yamato Monogatari (Tales of Yamato) | |
| Season | Spring (March in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scene | Village of Kusaka in Settsu Province | |
| Tsukurimono | A reed hut | |
| Characters | Shite | Kusaka no Saemon |
| Tsure | Wife of Saemon | |
| Waki | Retainer of Saemon’s wife | |
| Waki-tsure | Servants of Saemon’s Wife (Three) | |
| Ai | Villager | |
| Masks | Tsure | Ko-omote |
| Costumes | Shite | A sedge rain hat, mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), kitsuke / dan-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with very wide stripes, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. Holding a reed (a pole of bamboo with leaves of iris attached). Mizugoromo taken off during the on-stage change of costume into samurai-eboshi (eboshi headdress for warriors or ori-eboshi) and kake-hitatare (tops of hitatare style kimono), with a belt and a small sword. Holds a fan. |
| Tsure | Kazura (wig), kazura-obi (belt for a wig), karaori (a short-sleeved kimono outer robe worn by female characters), kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), and a fan. | |
| Waki | Tops and bottoms of suō (a long-sleeved, unlined hemp kimono with matching top and bottom, worn by male characters); kitsuke / dan-noshime, a small sword, and a fan. | |
| Waki-tsure | Tops and bottoms of suō, kitsuke / muji-noshime (short-sleeved, unpatterned kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing), a small sword, and a fan. | |
| Ai | Naga-kamishimo (a long-sleeved kimono worn with a sleeveless robe and a pair of hakama a trousers with trailing hems), or kataginu (sleeveless robe) and han-bakama (a pair of hakama trousers of ankle length). | |
| Number of scenes | One | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 30 minutes | |
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