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

Sat. Jun. 7, 2025
13:00 <1st show>
16:30 <2nd show>

1st show

Kyogen"HI NO SAKE"(Piped In Sake)
main performer:Noritaka Yamamoto
★story★
The Master calls Taro Kaja and Jiro Kaja, and tells them he must go out on some business or other. He leaves Taro Kaja in charge of the rice storehouse and Jiro Kaja in charge of the saké storehouse ordering them not to leave their posts.They get bored and begin chatting through the windows which face each other. The saké smells so good that Jiro Kaja decides to taste some and invites Taro Kaja to come join him. Taro Kaja very conscientiously says he must stay at his post, so Jiro Kaja feeds him saké through a large bamboo pipe which he puts across between the two windows.They both get quite drunk and are enjoying themselves singing and dancing when the Master comes home and chases them out scolding.

Noh"YORIMASA"
main performer:Takashi Takeda
★story★
A travelling priest stops at Uji and is admiring the view there when an old man approaches and, after telling him about various historical spots in the neighbourhood, leads him to the Byodo-in. There he shows him the patch of turf cut in the shape of a fan to commemorate the warrior Yorimasa who laid his fan down and killed himself there after being defeated in battle. Revealing that he is the spirit of the warrior, he then disappears. After the priest has prayed for the repose of his soul, Yorimasa comes to him in his true form and tells him about the battle.He asks the priest to continue to pray for him and again fades from sight.

2st show

Kyogen"SHUKUGARAKASA "(The Riddle Umbrella)
main performer:Tojiro Yamamoto
★story★
A Daimyo calls Taro Kaja and asks him what it is that people are always laughing about at various gatherings. Taro Kaja says that it is a kind of double entendre riddle called shuku.
The Daimyo asks if one can learn to make these riddles. Taro Kaja says yes, and the Daimyo asks to be taught. Taro Kaja says that he is not good enough at it to teach, so the Daimyo sends him out to find someone who can teach shuku. Taro Kaja meets an Umbrella Maker on the road, and the Umbrella Maker says he can make any number of shuku about umbrellas. They return and the Daimyo is so pleased with his teacher that he gives him his sword, dagger, fan, and the clothes off his back. In return the Umbrella Maker gives the Daimyo his last umbrella, and goes off singing happily. In the Okura script, the Umbrella Maker leaves quietly as soon as he gives the Daimyo the umbrella. The Daimyo recites a poem about cold rain at night and an umbrella, then observes that shuku is a rather chilly pastime.

Noh"HAGOROMO"(The Robe of Feathers)
main performer:Kazufusa Hosho
★story★
Some fishermen are walking at Matsubara on Mio Bay when one of them finds a beautiful robe hanging from the branch of a pine tree. He is about to take this home when an angel comes to claim it, explaining that it is a feather robe from Heaven. This makes the fisherman determined to keep it as a national treasure, but when the angel tells him that without it she can never again ascend to Heaven he is so moved by her distress that he agrees to return it if she will dance for him. He at first refuses to give it back before she dances for fear that she will fly away as soon as the robe is hers again, but when the angel tells him that such behaviour is only to be found in the ways of men, he shamefacedly gives up the robe. Overjoyed now, the angel puts it on and dances. Then, calling down blessings without number on the land, she disappears up to Heaven among the mists and clouds.

commentary in Japanese: Naoki Kaneko(both show)