KEY TO PLAN I
Theatre set up in the river-bed at Kyōto in 1464; Onami’s troupe acted on it for three days “with immense success.”
- A The Shōgun.
- B His attendants.
- C His litter.
- D His wife.
- E Her ladies.
- F Her litter.
- G Auditorium.
- H Stage.
- I Musicians.
- J Hashigakari.
- K Gakuya, served as actors’ dressing-room and musicians’ room.
KEY TO PLAN II
Modern Stage
- A The Stage.
- B The shite’s Pillar.
- C Shite’s seat, also called “Name-saying seat.”
- D Metsuke-bashira, Pillar on which the actor fixes his eye.
- E Sumi, the corner.
- F Waki’s Pillar, also called the Prime Minister’s Pillar.
- G Waki’s seat.
- H Waki’s direction-point. (The point he faces when in his normal position.)
- I Flute-player’s Pillar.
- J Atoza, the Behind-space.
- K Kagami-ita, the back-wall with the pine-tree painted on it.
- L The musicians. (Represented by the four small circles.)
- M The stage-attendant’s place. (A stage-hand in plain clothes who fetches and carries.)
- N Kirido, “Hurry-door,” also called “Forgetting-door” and “Stomach-ache-door”; used by the chorus and occasionally by actors making a hurried exit. Vide Hōkazō, p. [174].
- O Chorus, the leader sits near P.
- P The Nobles’ door (now seldom used).
- Q The Hashigakari.
- R The kyōgen’s seat.
- S The three pine-branches.
- T Shirasu, a gravel-path.
- U Kizahashi, steps from stage to auditorium, formerly used by an actor summoned to speak with the Shōgun.
- V Actors’ dressing-room.
- W Curtain between Q and V.
- X Dressing-room window.
- Y Musicians’ room.