UTAURA
(歌占)

                
[Male Shaman Named Watarai]
Otokomiko (Watarai nanigashi) (男巫（渡会何某)）
 
Kôgiku-maru (幸菊丸)

Play: Utaura (歌占)
Print Date: 01/25/30
Artist: Matsuno Sôfû (松野奏風)
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures]
Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 1, #22
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 

                
[Male Shaman Named Watarai]
Otokomiko (Watarai nanigashi) (男巫（渡会何某)）
 
[Villager] Satobito ( 里人)
 
Kôgiku-maru (幸菊丸)

Play:  Utaura (歌うら)
Print Date: 03/15/1900
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue
(能楽図絵) [#176]
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University
 


 

                 

Play: Utaura (歌占)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #54
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Tsukurimono: A bow and many tanzaku (long strips of paper) tied with it. Kanmuri: An okina-
eboshi with a shirotare (white wig). Shikishi: Depicts branches and leaves for nests and a cuckoo. It
says in the play, "Cuckoos hatch from the nest of bush warbler. Some chicks are alike father, but some
chicks are not alike father."