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Please enjoy commentary, Noh performance and hands-on ecperiences.
Biginners enjoyable Noh performance with English subtitles.
14:30 Doors open
15:00 Commentary
15:20 NOH-Hajitomi
16:30 Q and A
17:00 Performance ends
※ After the event, you can try out Noh masks, costumes and musical instruments. Please join us. Ends around 17:30
【Synopsis】
A traveling monk, who has never been to Shikoku, sets out on a pilgrimage through western Japan. With his attendants, he arrives by boat at Yashima Bay in Sanuki Province
(present-day Kagawa), the site of an old Genpei battlefield. As night falls, they approach a seaside hut used for salt-making, hoping for shelter. The hut’s owner, an old man, and a fisherman return just then. At first, the old man refuses, saying the place is too humble,
but upon learning the monks are from the capital, he relents, reminiscing about the city
with tears in his eyes. When the monk asks about the Genpei battle once fought here, the old man describes it vividly—as if he had seen it himself. His knowledge arouses suspicion, but he gives no name, hinting instead that he is the ghost of Minamoto no Yoshitsune
before vanishing.
That night, as the monk sleeps with a pine root for a pillow, the armored spirit of
Yoshitsune appears in a dream, recounting the battle of Yashima. He performs a dance depicting his fierce struggle against Taira no Noritsune whom he once fought at Dan-no-ura, now clashing again in the warrior’s afterlife. As dawn breaks, the vision dissolves—
the enemy troops turn out to be flocks of gulls, their war cries the sound of the bay wind, and the ghost himself fades into the morning storm.
