Japanese No Dramas by Various

Author:Various [Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drama & Plays, Classics
ISBN: 9780140445398
Amazon: 0140445390
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1993-06-02T05:00:00+00:00

THE WILDWOOD SHRINE

Persons in order of appearance

A Monk

waki

A Lady (Waka-onna mask)

maeshite

A Villager

ai

The phantom of the Consort, Lady Rokujō

(Waka-onna mask)

nochijite

Remarks: A third-category play (kazura-mono) current in all five schools of nō. According to a variant performance tradition (kogaki) in the Hōshō, Kongō, and Kita schools, a carriage is brought on at the beginning of part two and placed in base square. The Consort then boards it and sings while the stage assistant draws it towards the curtain, leaving it at first pine. Historical records show that the play has been performed in the past with torii only, with carriage only, with both, and with neither.

* * *

Stage assistant places a torii, with a flimsy length of fence on either side of it, at front of stage.

To nanori-bue music, enter Monk. He stands in base square.

MONK (nanori) You have before you a monk who is looking at all the provinces. Lately I have been in Miyako, where I saw all the sights and monuments of the Capital. With autumn nearly over, I feel drawn to the moors of Saga, and I will therefore go to see them. Now, upon inquiring about this grove, I learned that this is where the Wildwood Shrine once stood. I will visit the place, since I happen to be passing by. [Moves to centre.]

(sashi)

I see before me, here within this grove,

an unbarked log torii, a wattled fence,

exactly as they were long, long ago.

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