Utaura (Poem Divination) : Details
| Schools | All five | |
| Category | The Fourth Group Noh | |
| Author | Kanze Motomasa | |
| Subject | Unknown A story of poem divination at Ise appears in Kasshi Yawa (Night Stories of Kasshi) and other sources. The Dance of the Hells is a style of dance incorporated in a then-popular form of entertainment depicting scenes in the hells. One such example of an infernal scene is “Yūki Nyūdō Jigoku ni Otsuru koto” (“An Account of Monk Yūki Falling into a Hell”), chapter 20 of the Taiheiki (Chronicle of Great Peace). | |
| Season | Summer (April in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scene | The foot of Mount Hakusan in Kaga Province | |
| Characters | Shite | Male Shaman Named Watarai |
| Kokata | Kōgiku-maru | |
| Tsure (Waki in Komparu, Kongoh, and Kita schools) | Villager (Man) | |
| Masks | Shite | Wears no mask or a mask of kantan-otoko, waka-otoko, or imawaka |
| Costumes | Shite | Shirotare (a type of wig made of white hair), okina-eboshi (eboshi-style headdress worn by old male or Shinto priest characters), white headband, yore-kariginu (creped kariginu-style kimono worn by male characters), kitsuke / atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters), hakama in ōkuchi-style (white or scarlet), koshi-obi (belt), and a fan. Holding a small bow from which are hanging some long strips of paper. |
| Kokata | Kitsuke / nuihaku (a short-sleeved kimono with embroidery and with gold or silver flakes placed on the fabric), nagabakama (a hakama-style trousers with long-stretched trains), and a fan. | |
| Tsure | Tops and bottoms of suō (a long-sleeved unlined hemp kimono with matching top and bottom, worn by male characters), kitsuke / muji-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with no pattern, worn as the innermost layer of the costumes of male characters of lesser standing) or dan-noshime (short-sleeved kimono with very wide stripes), a small sword, and a fan. | |
| Number of scenes | One | |
| Length | About 1 hour 10 minutes | |
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