Pray do so.
SAINT.
He said: “I will say my incantations.”
Following in the steps of En no Gyōja,[142]
Clad in skirts that have trailed the Peak of the Two Spheres,[143]
That have brushed the dew of the Seven Precious Trees,
Clad in the cope of endurance
That shields from the world’s defilement,
“Sarari, sarari,” with such sound
I shake the red wooden beads of my rosary
And say the first spell:
Namaku Samanda Basarada
Namaku Samanda Basarada.[144]
ROKUJŌ (during the incantation she has cowered at the back of the stage wrapped in her Chinese robe, which she has picked up again.)
Go back, Gyōja, go back to your home; do not stay and be vanquished!
SAINT.
Be you what demon you will, do not hope to overcome the Gyōja’s subtle power. I will pray again.
(He shakes his rosary whilst the CHORUS, speaking for him, invokes the first of the Five Kings.)
CHORUS.
In the east Gō Sanze, Subduer of the Three Worlds.