Senju : Details
| Schools | All five. The title is written 千寿 (Senju, literally, “one thousand blessings”) in the Kita school while it is written 千手 (Senju, literally, “one thousand hands”) in the other schools. | |
| Category | The Third Group Noh | |
| Author | Komparu Zenchiku | |
| Subject | Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) Volume 10, Azuma Kagami (Chronicle of the East) | |
| Season | Spring (March in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scene | Kamakura in Sagami Province (modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture) | |
| Characters | Shite | Senju |
| Tsure | Taira no Shigehira | |
| Waki | Kanōnosuke Munemochi | |
| Masks | Tsure | Wakaonna, Zō, Ko-omote, etc. |
| Costumes | Shite | Kazura (wig), kazura-obi (belt for a wig), iroiri karaori (outer robes with patterns containing scarlet) wore in kinagashi-style, kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), and a fan. |
| Tsure | [Occasionally wear kara (a piece of square cloth worn over other clothes by Buddhism priests)], kitsuke / atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters) or atsuita-karaori, hakama in ōkuchi-style (white or pale yellow), koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. [Sometimes holding Buddhist prayer beads.] | |
| Waki | Nashiuchi-eboshi (eboshi-style headdress), a white headband, tops and bottoms of hitatare (kimono for warriors), kitsuke / atsuita, komi-ōkuchi (underwear hakama in ōkuchi-style), a sword, and a fan. | |
| Number of scenes | One | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 40 minutes | |
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