Tōboku
Toboku（1933）The Ghost Plays of Japan, The Japan Society (NY), New York [EN]
- Used in most Kazuramono No Plays (Wig Plays) such as Toboku, Eguchi, Yuya, Matsukaze, Senju, Yokihi, etc. in which the chief player disguises himself as a woman.
- 33-34The plays in which a beautiful young lady of noble birth is the chief character are Tōboku (The Plum-tree of the Tōboku-in), No-no-miya (The Princess of the Provisional Palace), Hagoromo (The Feather Robe of a Heavenly Maid), Yōkihi (The Beloved Queen Yang in the Fairy Palace), Yuya (The Mistress of Munemori), Matsukaze (The Sisters of the Seashore), and Eguti (The Courtesans of Eguchi), and Izutsu (A Woman and a Well-curb).
- 40Following the above order, for instance, a spring programme might consist of (1) Takasago, (2) Tamura, (3) Tōboku, (4) Sumida-gawa or Ataka, (5) Huna-Benkei.
- 54Tōboku (A Plum-tree of the Toboku-in)