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A villager who has stopped by Tatsuta Myōjin Shrine tells the monk the story of Tatsuta Myōjin and the crimson foliage, implying that the woman the monk met must be a manifestation of the goddess Tatsuta. He goes on to suggest that the monk stay and witness an extraordinary event. At night, when the monk is performing sutra recitation, the goddess Tatsuta appears from a hall of the shrine. She narrates the history of Tatsuta Myōjin Shrine, recites ancient poems about the beauty and sanctity of Tatsuta and once again asks the monk not to cross the river. The goddess Tatsuta waves a Shinto hei wand decorated with white cloth while performing a dance and then gracefully dances her way upward, ascending to the heavens as dawn breaks.
This play uses a stage prop, an ichijō-dai platform with a small shrine placed on top of it. The lead character uses this prop effectively—she enters the shrine at the interlude and in the second half of the play, reemerges from it as the gorgeous goddess Tatsuta. Unlike other plays such as Miwa and Kazuraki, in which a woman is transformed into a goddess and then performs a kagura dance, this piece avoids depictions of human suffering and focuses solely on the sophisticated elegance of the goddess. STORY PAPER : TatsutaStory Paper presents noh chant stories in modern speech, with story outlines, highlights and more using Adobe PDF format, which can print out and zoom in. Print out the pages and take them with you when you see the actual noh performance.
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