木賊山(Tokusa Yama)

This yama features a scene from one of Zeami's Noh chants, "Tokusa", or a kind of scouring rush. The figure in this float is an old man who came to cut mares' tails.


















He is dancing in memory of his beloved child who was kidnapped a long time before. The life-size figure of an old man holds a sickle in his right hand and a bunch of mares' tails in his left hand. The year 1692 is written on the base of the figure in Chinese ink.
By T.S. on 1st Jul., 2008