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

Sat. Jun. 13, 2026
13:00 <1st show>
16:30 <2nd show>

1st show

Kyogen"ROREN"(Almost a Priest)
main performer: Tojiro Yamamoto
★story★
A Travelling Priest requests lodging for the night at a tea shop. The Owner invites him in, and while they are waiting for the evening meal to be prepared, the Owner asks questions about heaven, hell, and life after death. Then he asks the Priest to shave his head and make him a priest. The Priest is very happy to perform the rites, but first asks the Owner if he has the permission of his Wife and family. The Owner assures him there is nothing to worry about, so the Priest shaves his head.
When this is done, the Owner asks the Priest to give him a new name. The Priest has never given anyone a new name before, so he finally decides to use his alphabet book. The Owner says that one of the letters of the name must be ren.
The Priest begins going through the alphabet, and finds this Owner become priest very hard to please, but the name Roren is finally decided upon.
At this point the Wife of the Owner appears to announce that supper is ready. When she discovers what has happened, she becomes angry. The Owner says the Priest forced him to do it, so the Wife scolds the Priest. The Priest, of course, refuses to take the responsibility, but the Wife believes her Husband.They join forces and throw the Priest down, beat him, and go off together. The Priest gets up, dusts himself off, and says, "If this is what one has to go through to make a new convert, I shall never try it again!"

In the Okura script, the Owner says the Priest forced him to become a priest, then he leaves. The Wife demands that the Priest give her Husband back his hair. The Priest says it will grow back naturally in two or three years. The Wife chases the Priest off scolding. The rest is the same as the Izumi script.

Noh"SHUNKAN"
main performer: Kazufusa Hosho
★story★
An emissary from Taira no Kiyomori arrives at Kikai-ga-shima with a pardon for two of the three men who have been exiled there for plotting against the Heike.Shunkan's joy at the arrival of the pardon turns to bitter despair when he is finally convinced that there has been no mistake and that he alone is to remain. He then has to watch his two companions sail away back to their homes in the capital, leaving him quite alone on the desolate island.

2st show

Kyogen"KAZUMO "(Wrestling with a Mosquito)
main performer: Norishige Yamamoto
★story★
A Daimyo sends Tarõ Kaja out to find a new servant. Tarõ Kaja meets a Man on the road, and brings him home. The new Man says he is good at sumo wrestling, so the Daimyo challenges him to a match. The new Servant is actually the Spirit of a Mosquito, and in the first round, he stings the Daimyo on the nose. The Daimyo thus discovers his true identity, so he brings out a huge fan, which he uses as a fly swatter, and wins the match.
In the Okura script, the Dainyo specifically orders Tarõ Kaja to hire a sumo wrestler. In the latter part of the play, the Daimyo has Taro Kaja use the fan, and he himself pulls the mosquito’s stinger out,and wins the match. The Mosquito goes off buzzing sadly.

Noh"NOMORI
main performer: Takashi Takeda
★story★
A priest comes to a stretch of water on Kasuga-no and asks an old man there what it is called. He replies that it is known as the Field Ranger's Mirror' but that this name is also given to a mirror carried by a devil who guards the moors by day in the form of a man and takes on the shape of a devil when he returns to the nearby mound at night. This stretch of water, the old man goes on, was also the mirror which showed the reflection of one of the Emperor's hawks after it had flown away during a hunt, and thus led to the bird's recapture. Saying that he has the mirror which is carried by the devil he spoke of, he disappears into the mound. The priest prays there and after a time the devil appears with the mirror. He shines it all round and stamps angrily about until finally disappearing again into Hell.

Commentary in Japanese: Naoki Kaneko(both show)