YAMAGUCHI RYÔSHÛ (山口蓼洲)

 1924 (Nôgu Taikan Vol. 2)

                 
Series Cover, Vol. 2

Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) 
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Play: Yumi Yawata (弓八幡)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑)  #28
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Note: Tsukurimono: Bow wrapped in a red brocade bag. Shikishi: Depicts doves, sacred to the god of
Hachiman Shrine, and the pattern of small grid for Shite's kitsuke (short-sleeved kimono).
 
 

                 

Play: Kamo (加茂)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #29
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Note: Kanze school. Tsukurimono: An arrow stands in the square frame. Shide (zigzag-shaped paper
streamers) are hung facing the four directions. Four gold arrows depicting lightning are tied to the
black wig when Kanze School's kogaki "Shirabataraki " is performed. It is not depicted on the print.
Mochimono: Mizu oke (cylindrical wooden bucket) for Mae-shite and Tsure. Nusa (strips of cut paper)
for Nochi-tsure. Shikishi: Depicts Nochi-shite's tôkanmuri (black crown for demon god) with a red wig
and four shide, and the pattern of kariginu.
 
 

                 

Play: Ugetsu (雨月)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #30
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Note: Tsukurimono: Itaya (shingle roofed hut). Kodôgu (small prop): Kazura-oke (cylindrical
lacquered container). Mochimono: Sakaki branch tied with grass. This prop is no longer used.
The upper left circle depicts the moon with maple leaves in it. It says in the play, "The maple
leaves fall as piling, the various colors are woven."
 
 
 

                 

Play: Ugetsu (雨月)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #31
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Note:  Tsukurimono: Nusadai, a frame-stand for nusa (strips of cut paper). No longer used.
Nochi-shite still uses only nusa. Massha zukin: A type of hood worn by lower-ranked priests in
kyôgen. Takezue: bamboo stick.
 

                 

Play: Tamanoi (玉の井)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #32
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Note: Tsukurimono: Well marked by a square frame. Additionally, a round frame stand supporting a
Japanese Judas tree is placed on the stage, but it is not depicted on the print. Tsuribari (fishhook).
Kanmuri-mono: Crown with a white wig and a headdress of an old dragon. Kasezue: Wooden cane
with a sideways grip on the top of the cane. Shikishi: Depicts Ryûgû (Palace of the Dragon King).
 

                 

Play: Kuzu (国栖)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #33
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Note: Tsukurimono: Ôfune: Large boat. Mochimono: Tsurizao (fishing rod) and sao (pole). Yari
(spear) and yumiya (bow and arrow): Kyôgen-kata use these props as Shite's pursuers. Shikishi:
Depicts a crown for Nochi-shite and the kariginu's pattern.
 
 
 

                 

Play: Tamura (田村)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #34
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Note: Mochimono: Hagi-bōki (broom of Japanese bush clover). Also called tama-bahaki (jeweled
broom).  Fallen petals are arranged to make a scene of the Shite sweeping the fallen petals under the
flowering trees. Shikishi: One thousand arrowheads, which is mentioned in the play, and a drawing of
Springtime at Kiyomizu-dera temple.  

                 

Play: Kogô (小督)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #35
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Note: Tsukurimono: Single swing door with hedges made by Japanese bush clover. Mochimono:
Riding crop and a letter for Shite, Nakakuni. Kanmuri: Kazaori-eboshi. Bright moon in the night sky
over Sagano is depicted on the background.
 
 

                 

Play: Sakuragawa (桜川)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #36
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Note: Tsukurimono: Scooping net . It says in the play, " The cherry blossoms are falling on the river.
It looks like white waves, but they are falling from above. Are they cherry blossoms, or snow?"
 

                 

Play: Sagi (鷺)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑)  #37
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Note: Kanmuri: Crown with a headdress of heron and Shirotare (white wig). Mochimono: Chûkei with
golden tortoise design. Shikishi: Depicts a heron playing at Shinsen-en Garden.
 
 

                 

Play: Hibariyama (雲雀山)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #38
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Note: Old Kongô school style. Tsukurimono: Thatched hut with flowers and leaves attached, as
shown on the print. Other schools use the tsukurimono used in "Rôdaiko" and attach cedar leaves.
Shikishi: Depicts a falcon at Mt. Hibariyama because Taka-gari (falconry) is performed during the
kyôgen.
 
 

                 

Play: Hibariyama (雲雀山)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #39
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Note: Three types of bouquets of flowers. Shite uses one of them, according to his preference. Same
in all schools. In Kanze school, Shite usually uses the bunch of flowers wrapped by noshi (gift wrapping
paper). Noshi-wrapped bouquet must be used when performing in front of the royal family.
 
 

                 

Play: Yuya (熊野)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #40
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Note: Tsukurimono: Carriage. This prop is also used in the plays of "Oshio," "Zegai," and "Sumiyoshi-
môde." In "Zegai" and "Oshio," however, the carriage is wrapped in dan-bôji (a strip of bluish cloth)
rather than red. Mochimono: A letter on the tanzaku (poem slip). Shikishi: Depicts cherry blossoms in
Kiyomizu-dera temple, which Shite mentions in this play.
 
 

                 

Play: Nonomiya (野宮)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #41
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Note: Tsukurimono: Torii gate and the brushwood fence, referred to as "Kuroki no Torii." Shikishi:
Front shikishi depicts autumn grasses because it says in the play "Lady Rokujô came to the shrine
by the ox-drawn carriage covered by autumn grasses and flowers." Back shikishi depicts sakaki
(Cleyera japonica) because it says in the play "Hikaru Genji brought sakaki when he visited the Lady
Rokujô at Nonomiya Shrine on the seventh day of the ninth month."
 
 

                 

Play: Kakitsubata (杜若)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #42
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Note: Kanze school. Kanmuri: Ui-kanmuri with a rounded tail on the back of the crown and oikake on
both sides. Oikake: Ornament made by horsetail hair in a fan shape. Plums and peach-colored cords
will be attached to the crown as shown in the print when "Sawabe no mai" kogaki is followed. Tachi:
ma-dachi (Japanese sword). Cyûkei (fan). Shikishi: Depicts Yatsuhashi bridge in Mikawa province.
 

                 

Play: Koi no Omoni (恋重荷)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #43
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Note: Tsukurimono: Omoni (heavy burden): Make a color as shown on the print with red brocade and
 tied it with a rope made by dark blue paper . Kasezue: A wooden cane with a sideways grip on the top
of the cane. Kasezue in this play is wrapped in white bōji (a strip of cloth) . Kashira: white wig for
Nochi-shite. Shikishi: Front shikishi depicts chrysanthemums since Mae-shite is a master at growing
chrysanthemums. Back shikishi depicts small grid pattern of the kitsuke (short-sleeved kimono).
 

                 

Play: Rôtaiko (籠太鼓)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #44
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Note: Tsukurimono: Jail: Tie up a drum. Mochimono: Chûkei without designs. Shikishi:
Upper part of shikishi depicts a Japanese bush warbler and bamboo because they are
mentioned in the play. Lower part of shikishi depicts the pattern of Shite's kitsuke (short-
sleeved kimono).
 
 
 

                 

Play: Tôsen (唐船)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #45
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Note: Tsukurimono: Frame of a boat. Mochimono: Tô-sen (a round fan held by a Chinese character),
muchi (stick) and te-nawa (hand rope). Shikishi: Depicts flowers because it says in the play, "Graze
horses in Mt. Huashan and herd cows to the peach trees. This is a famous place for flowers."
 

                 

Play: Mochizuki (望)月
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #46
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Note: Kongô school. Tsukurimono: Aka-gashira (red wig) for lion dance. Put a golden fan on his wig
and cover his face with a red cloth. The face cover differs depending on school. Mochimono: Kakko
(small drum) and sticks for Kokata, a child actor. In Kanze school, Shite sometime uses a white wig.
In old style, a peony was putted in the wig. Shikishi: Front shikishi depicts otoko gasa (men's sedge
hat). Back shikishi depicts the atsuita pattern on the kimono worn by Shite in a tsubo-ori style.
 
 

                 

Play: Tôru (融)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #47
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Note: Kongô school. Mochimono: Two tago-oke (buckets) and a bamboo pole to collect and carry
brine. Kanmuri: Ui-kanmuri. Put a yellow chrysanthemum on the top as shown in the print when
"Shaku no mai" kogaki is followed. Upper right circle depicts the moon and a beach. It says in the
play, "The moon has already risen in the sky. In the evening when tides go full, the beach of
Shiogama here looks lonely." Shikishi: Depicts the pattern of wisteria on sashinuki (a type of
hakama) for Nochi-shite.

                 

Play: Shakkyô (石橋)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #48
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Note: Kongô school. Tsukurimono: Ichijôdai. Two Ichijôdai are used when performing Renjishi (dance of
two Lions). Kongô School adds golden peony on a pattern of ichimatsu around the Ichijôdai. White and
red peony threes are on each ichijôdai. Shikishi: Depicts a lion and the pattern of small grid seen on
kitsuke (short-sleeved kimono). Tsukurimono are identical, but the pattern of around the Ichijôdai differ
based on school.
 
 
 

                 

Play: Shakkyô (石橋)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #49
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Note: Kanze school. Tsukurimono: Frame is set in front of the hayashigata (instrumental performers)
when Kanze school kogaki "Jyūnidan" is performed. Kanze school also uses the Ichijōdai shown in
Shakkyô 1.  Mochimono: Hagishiba (bunch of hagi). Use differs depending on school. Taketsue
(bamboo stick). Shikishi: Depicts patterns of hangiri (a type of hakama) and happi (a long-sleeved
garment) which are based on a rule of Kanze school.
 
 

                 

Play: Ama (海士)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #50
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Note: Mochimono: Miru (a type of seaweed) and a hook are for Mae-shite. Miru is made of cedar
leaves. Handscroll for Nochi-shite. Kashira: Kurotare (black wig) with the headdress of a dragon.
Kanze school uses a sea dragon. Shikishi: Depicts the world beneath the sea.
 
 

                 

Play: Daie (大會)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #51
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Note: Kongô school. Tsukurimono: Wheeled chair and an Ichijôdai. Mochimono: Handscroll. Shikishi:
Depicts Taishakuten, one of the guardian gods of the Buddhism. It says in the play, "Mt. Hieizan
suddenly thundered out and shook, then Taishakuten came from the sky."

 
 
 
 

                 

Play: Daie (大會)
Print Date: 1924
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #52
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Note: Kanze school. Tsukurimono: Chair, which will be set on an Ichijôdai as in Daie 1.
Daizukin: Aka-gasira (red wig) for Nochi-shite. Tengan: Crown for Taishakuten. There is
no headdress. Uchizue: Thin stick, about 60 cm long, with cross bar at the end. An opened
handscroll is depicted at the upper left.