Kanaoka 01

Brazell, Traditional Japanese Theater, p. 282

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The wife in Kanaoka is ready to have her face painted by her husband.  She is sitting on the round lacquered cask (shoogi) used in both noh and kyoogen.  The husband wears a brightly designed gown over patterned hakama, and the wife has on a typical kyoogen woman's kimono and white headdress (binan).