Torioi(bune) explained

or is a Noh play of the fourth category, probably from the 16th century,^[1] and possibly by Kongō Yagorō.^[2]

Theme

An absentee husband and father sets in motion a chain of events whereby the steward left in charge of the family estate gradually exerts power over the mother and her son, Hanawaka.^[3]

Eventually the pair are forced into the demeaning activity of bird-scaring from a boat among the ricefields.^[4]

See also

• Take no yuki

External links

• Tori-oi-bune: Picture

Notes and References

1. https://sites.google.com/site/itsalwayshereandnow/nogaku-accomplished-entertainment/Donald-Keene_Twenty-Plays-of-the-Noh-Theatre_Columbia-University-Press-1970_/Torioi-bune-yo Torio-bune-yo
2. [Arthur Waley|A Waley]
3. A Waley, The Noh Plays of Japan (1976) p. 222
4. https://sites.google.com/site/itsalwayshereandnow/nogaku-accomplished-entertainment/Donald-Keene_Twenty-Plays-of-the-Noh-Theatre_Columbia-University-Pr Torio-bune-yo