EMA
(絵馬)

                
Tajikarao (手力男)
 
Amaterasu (天照)
 
Uzume (鈿女)

Play: Ema (絵馬)
Print Date: 12/25/99
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#197]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh

 

Tajikarao (手力男)

Play: Ema (絵馬)
Print Date: 11/1925
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [One Hundred Nô Plays]
Nôgaku Hyakuban (能楽百番) [#88-90]
*Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University


 

Amaterasu (天照)


 

                
Uzume (鈿女)


 

                
Tajikarao (手力男)
 
Amaterasu (天照)
 
Uzume (鈿女)

Ema (絵馬)
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Print Date: 07/05/1925
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures]
Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 2, #26
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 
 

                 

Play: Ema (繪馬)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑)  #78
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Tsukurimono: Yashirodai placed on an ichijôdai. In maeba (the first half act), it represents a
palace and wooden votive tablets of white and black horses are hanged up. In nochiba (the second
half act), it represents the ama-no-iwato, a cave behind a massive rock door. Shikishi: Depicts the
Saikû Shrine at Ise and the pattern of small grid for Mae-shite's kitsuke (short-sleeved kimono).

 
 
 
 

                 

Play: Ema (繪馬)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #79
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Hi-tengan: Tengan with a headdress representing the sun. Headdress is not used by all schools.
Tsuki-tengan: Tengan with a headdress representing the moon. Suki-kanmuri: Black crown with kurotare
(black wig). Shikishi: Depicts an oni-zukin (hood for a devil/demon) and kanazuchi (hammer) for Kyôgen-
kata.