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Height, 14.6cm., width 15.7cm.; manuscript copy; one book, square format; retchou binding (bound at the spine); cover design of fan with deer and bush clover in silver on a gilt-silver background of mist; frontispiece of the same paper, thin paper of blended choshi,. Ink on 28 pages; including one loose leaf; outer title @Shika (insect damage); colophon @Ouei 27, a day in the 6th month, written by Zea[mi].@
Zeami was 58 years of age in Ouei 27. This is a treatise in noh practice in five parts, i.e., the first on the two modes and three forms, nikyoku santai no koto 企妒话挛; followed by sections on mushufu no koto 痰肩慎祸, kan'i no koto 镬疤祸, hinikukotsu no koto 乳迄裹祸, taiyou no koto 挛脱祸. This manuscript, in the same hand as the Houzanji manuscript of Fuushikaden, is from the late-Muromachi-era. On the final three pages is attached the text of Goi, which had also been transmitted through Zeami. |
