Hagoromo (play)

Hagoromo
羽衣
English titleThe Feather Mantle
Category3rd — katsura mono
Charactersshite angel
waki Hakuryō, a fisherman
wakizure companion(s)
PlacePine Grove of Miho, Suruga Bay
Timespring, at night
SourcesTango fudoki (8th century)
Nōin (11th century)
Schoolsall
Hagoromo, UMEWAKA Minoru II(2世梅若実), 1940

Hagoromo (羽衣, The Feather Mantle) is among the most-performed Japanese Noh plays.[1][2] It is an example of the traditional swan maiden motif.[3][4]

  1. ^ Kinoshita, June & Nicholas Palevsky. Gateway to Japan. Kodansha International (1998), p121. ISBN 4-7700-2018-X.
  2. ^ Tyler, Royall. Japanese No Dramas. Penguin Classics (1992), p96. ISBN 0-14-044539-0.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference blacker44 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Young, Serinity. "Gender and Sexuality: Reading Females, Males and Other in Asian Folktales". In: A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity. Vol. 1 – Antiquity (500 BCE to 800 CE). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. pp. 62-63.

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