Torioi-bune / Torioi : Details
| Schools | All five. Titled “Torioi (Driving off Birds)” in the Hōshō school. | |
| Category | The fourth group Noh, Kyōjo-mono | |
| Author | Unknown | |
| Subject | Unknown | |
| Season | Autumn (September in the lunar calendar) | |
| Scene | Village of Higurashi in Satsuma Province | |
| Tsukurimono | Boat (decorated with hand drums and clappers). | |
| Characters | Shite | Lord Higurashi’s Wife |
| Kokata | Hanawaka | |
| Waki / Waki-tsure | Lord Higurashi | |
| Waki-tsure / Waki | Sako-no-jō | |
| Ai | Retainer of Lord Higurashi (Sword Bearer) | |
| Masks | Shite | Shakumi, Fukai |
| Costumes | Shite [First Half] | Kazura (wig), kazura-obi (band for a wig), ironashi-karaori (a short-sleeved kimono outer robe with no scarlet in its pattern), kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), and a fan. |
| Shite [Second Half] | Kazura, kazura-obi, mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono of middling quality) or ironashi-karaori worn in tsubo-ori style, kitsuke / surihaku, koshimaki / nuihaku (a short-sleeved kimono with embroidery and gold or silver flakes placed onto the fabric), koshi-obi (belt), a sedge rain hat, and a fan.. | |
| Kokata [First Half] | kitsuke / nuihaku, nagabakama (hakama-style trousers with long-stretched trains), and a fan. Or kitsuke / surihaku, chigo-bakama (hakama-style trousers for a child character), and a fan. | |
| Kokata [Second Half] | kitsuke / surihaku, koshimaki / nuihaku, koshi-obi, and a fan. Or kitsuke / surihaku, chigo-bakama, and a fan. | |
| Waki / Waki-tsure (Lord Higurashi) | Kake-suō (a long-sleeved unlined hemp kimono worn by male characters, left untucked in hakama trousers), kitsuke / atsuita (a type of short-sleeved kimono mainly worn by male characters), or 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, a small sword, a sedge rain hat, and a fan. | |
| Waki-tsure / Waki (Sako-no-jō) | Suō-kamishimo (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), a small sword, and a fan. (In the second half, removes the right sleeve from the top of the suō kimono and holds a pole.) | |
| Ai | Naga-kamishimo (long-sleeved kimono worn with a sleeveless robe and a pair of hakama trousers with trailing hems). | |
| Number of scenes | Two | |
| Length | About 1 hour and 20 minutes | |
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