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Schools All five.
Category Fourth group Noh
Author Komparu Zenchiku
Subject “Kogō” in Volume six, “Heike Monogatari (the Tale of the Heike)”
Season Autumn (August in the lunar calendar)
Scene The house of Minamoto no Nakakuni in Kyoto; Sagano in Kyoto
Tsukurimono a single folding door, brushwood fence
Characters Shite Minamoto no Nakakuni
Tsure Kogō
Tsure Female attendant
Waki Imperial messenger
Ai Owner of the house
Masks Tsure (Kogō) Ko-omote
Tsure Ko-omote
Costumes Shite First Half: Okina-eboshi (eboshi style headdress for old men) (holding with a belt made of entwined Kanze-yori cord) / black kazaori-eboshi (eboshi-style headdress), unlined kariginu-style kimono / tops and bottoms of hitatare (kimono for warriors), kitsuke / atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white or pale yellow) / komi-ōkuchi (underwear hakama in ōkuchi-style), (koshi-obi (belt)), (a small sword).
Second Half: Okina-eboshi (holding with a belt made of entwined Kanze-yori cord) / black kazaori-eboshi, chōken (an unlined, long-sleeved elegant garment worn by dancing female characters) / unlined kariginu-style kimono, kitsuke / atsuita, hakama in ōkuchi-style (white or pale yellow), koshi-obi, (a small sword), a fan, and a whip.
Tsure (Kogō) 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.
Tsure kazura, kazura-obi, karaori, kitsuke / surihaku, and a fan.
Waki hora-eboshi (eboshi style headdress worn by stately roles), awase-kariginu (a lined long-sleeved style kimono worn by male characters, especially gods and other dignified characters), kitsuke / atsuita, hakama in ōkuchi-style (white), koshi-obi, a fan, and a letter.
Ai binan-kazura (a white cloth to wrap around the head of a kyogen performer), haku-no-kosode (a kosode style kimono decorated with gold and silver foils), and onna-obi (belt for women).
Number of scenes Two
Length About 1 hour and 20 minutes

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