SHITE Kagekiyo old and blind
TSURE Hime his daughter, called also Hitomaru
TOMO Her attendant
WAKI A villager
CHORUS
The scene is in Hinga.
KAGEKIYO
HIME AND TOMO (chanting) What should it be; the body of dew, wholly at the mercy of wind?
HIME
I am a girl named Hitomaru from Kamega-engayatsu,
My father, Akushichi-bioye Kagekiyo,
Fought by the side of Heike,
And is therefore hated by Genji.
He was banished to Miyazaki in Hinga,
To waste out the end of his life.
Though I am unaccustomed to travel,
I will try to go to my father.