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

Tue. Sep. 23, 2025
13:00 <1st show>
16:30 <2nd show>

1st show

Shimai"NUE"
main performer: Saburota Kanze

Kyogen"HAGI DAIMYO"(The Daimyo and the Bush Clover)
main performer: Chikanari Miyake

★story★
A country Daimyo has been busy in the capital for several months and decides he needs some recreation. He asks Taro Kaja for advice on what to do and where to go. Taro Kaja suggests viewing a garden that he knows of, that has beautiful flowering clover bushes. The price for seeing the garden is the recitation of a poem. The Daimyo is not very well educated and has a very poor memory so Taro Kaja uses several tricks to help the Daimyo remember the poem he has taught him.The Daimyo is confident that with the hints Taro Kaja has arranged, he will be able to recite the poem, but when the time comes, he gets stage fright and forgets everything. He also makes unbelievable mistakes in etiquette. In the middle of the proceedings, Taro Kaja gets disgusted -and goes home. Finally the Garden Owner gets angry and chases the Daimyo out.

Noh"KANTAN"
main performer: Kojiro Sumi
★story★
A man called Ro-sei who has left his home to seek knowledge in another part of China, stops for a night in the village of Kantan. The innkeeper gives him a pillow and he lies down to rest. An Imperial envoy then comes to him and appoints him emperor. Thereafter he lives a life of unrivalled splendour and luxury throughout a reign of fifty years. But then he awakes to hear the innkeeper telling him that his rice is cooked-and all his dream figures fade away. Realizing then that life itself is just such a momentary dream, he resolves to give up his journey and its vanities and to spend the rest of his days quietly at home.

2nd show

Shimai"HANJO"
main performer: Ryoichi Takanashi

Kyogen"SHIMIZU"(A Demon for Better Working Conditions)
main performer: Sukenori Miyake
★story★
The Master calls Taro Kaja, and orders him to go to Shimizu to draw water for tea. Taro Kaja says he is busy, but the Master insists. He gives Taro Kaja a special pail which he values very highly, instructs him not to lose it, and sends him after the water. Taro Kaja, who thinks himself above this sort of errand, decides to put a stop to this sort of order. He puts the pail down, and runs screaming back to his Master's house. The Master asks what the matter is, and where his precious pail is. Taro Kaja answers that he had been chased by a demon, and was so frightened that he threw the pail in the demon's face, after which he heard a crunching sound. The Master orders him to go look for the pail but he refuses, and the Master goes out to find it himself. Taro Kaja puts on a mask and dresses up like a demon, runs out ahead of the Master, frightens the Maste-r to death, and makes him promise to give Taro Kaja plenty of saké to drink, to give him a mosquito net to sleep under in the summer, and to pay his back wages. In return for these promises, the "demon" lets the Master go. When the Master reaches home, Taro Kaja is there waiting for him. The Master begins to tell Taro Kaja about how the demon was concerned about Taro Kaja's welfare. He suddenly realizes that the voice of the demon and Taro Kaja are the same, and that he has been duped. The Master says he is going out again to look for his precious pail. When the "demon" appears again, he snatches off the mask under which he finds Taro Kaja, who he chases off. 

Noh"HAJITOMI"(The Wicket Gate)
main performer: Yoshimaru Sekine
★story★
While a priest of the Unrin-in is performing a service for flowers offered up in Buddhist ceremonies, a woman comes along with some yugao, moon-flowers. When the priest asks who she is, she replies that her name is Yugao and that she lives near Gojo; thereupon she vanishes. When the priest goes to Gojo to pray for her, the Lady Yugao raises a wicket gate hung with the gourds of the plant of that name, and comes out to greet him. She tells him how Prince Genji visited her there (see Yugao), and dances as the memories of that time come back to her. But soon dawn comes, she retires behind the wicket gate and the priest awakes from his dream.

Commentary in Japanese: Tatau Murakami (both show)