Regular Performance -Kongo school-
(Noh performance / Kongo school)

Sun. Feb.2, 2025
13:00 <1st show>
16:30 <2nd show>

1st show

Kyogen"OKO SAKO"(The Trial Rehearsal)
main performer:Sengoro Shigeyama

★story★
Oko tells his Wife that he is planning to go to the Grand IseShrine  with some of the neighbors,and asks if she will go along.She says that she would be happy to go, till she hears Sako is gong. Suddenly she changes her mind and says that she is too embarrassed to go because everyone else is rich enough to have samething to ride on. Oko says that he has a cow she can ride on. She laughs at him and asks him where be got a cow. He explains that one day recently Sako's cow was eating in his field. He caught it and told it that he would claim it at the end of the year,and it answered,"Moo," and that at the same time Sako smiled in consent. She laughs at him and says Sako was only laughing at his stupidity.
Oko gets angry,and says he will take the case to court and see who is right. She continues to make fun of him, saying that he is such a coward that he would neber get his case even heard,let alone win,and suggests that before he goes, she will play thae part of the judge so he can rehearse what he is going to say. 
First they rehearse Sko's plea which Oko performs well, but when it comes time to play himself , he is so frightened that he can't even get the sotry straight, and the Wife plays the part of the judge so forbiddingly that Oko finally passed out.
When Oko comes to,he accuses his Wife of being on Sako's side. In fact, he realates an story about when he saw hid Wife and Sako talking bery intimately. The Wife is so angry at being found out that she beats Oko with a stick,knocks him down, and goes off in a huff.Oko picks himself up and yells out after her, "Well anyway,now I know for sure you are Sakko's mistress."
In the Okura script, Oko begins by telling his Wife that he is going to take Sko to court. THe scene where Oko plays the part of Sako is not in the Okura script, and the  play ends with Oko and  his Wife beating and screaming at each other.

Noh"KUROZUKA"
main performer:Hisanori Kongo

★story★
Two travelling priests are given shelter for the night in the house of a poor woman at Kurozuka in Adachigahara. When she leaves them to collect firewood, she warns them not to look into her room, but the priests' servant is unable to restrain his curiosity. The horrifying things he sees there convince the priests that they are in the house of a devil. The woman then appears as an angry demon, but is finally overcome by the power of the priests.

2nd show

【Notice of Cast Change】
Due to the bad health condition of Yaemon Teshima, the cast has been changed as follows
2nd show: Noh"KAGETSU"
main performer: Tatsunori Kongo
Thank you for your understanding.
(2025.1.21)

Kyogen"BUNZO"(The Tricky Memory Trick)
main performer:Sengoro Shigeyama

★story★
TaroKaja took off work for a few days without his Master's permission and went to the capital. His Master Heard that he had come back the previous night and goes to his house in a rage. When the Master hears where TaroKaja has been and that while there he bisited the Master's uncle, he says he will forgibe TaroKaja if he tells him about the trip and especially about what the uncle gabe him to eat, since the uncle is famous for sebing bery delicious and unusual food.
TaroKaja says he did indeed eat something that was bery unusual and very delicious, but he can't recall what it was called.He can only remember that he ate it in the morning. The Master names all the foods he can think of thata might be serbed in the mornning,but nothing rings any bells with TaroKaja.
TaroKaja always has a hard time remenbering things, so the Master had instructed him to use the memoriy trick of relating things. TaroKaja says that he remenbers that the name of the food is in  the chanted narratibe (katri) the Master likes to recite about the battle at Ishibashi moutain.
The Master agrees to recite it, but says for TaroKaja to stop him when he hears the key word. TaroKaja finally stops him on the bery last line when he hears the word Bunzo,the name of a warrior. The Master objects that he couldn't habe eaten a man and suddenly realizes that TaroKaja has even used a mistaken memory trick. The Master asks hi if it was unzo gaya(a lukewarm tasteless soup eaten by Zen priests for breakfast) ana TaroKaja exclaims,"Yes, that's it." The Master scolds him for putting him to so much trouble to recall something so desagreeable.   

Noh"KAGETSU"
main performer:Tatsunori Kongo

★story★
Since his son, seven years old then, has desappered, Saemon becomes a trabelling priest.
Arribing at the Kiyomizu-dera he talks with a man libing near the temple who then calls out a young entertainer known as Kagetsu to perform for him. The priest recognises him as his son and learns that he was led away from his home by a goblin.

commentary in Japanese: Naoki Kaneko(both show)