Matsukaze (松風) Noh with Script & Synopsis

SCRIPT (PDF) SYNOPSIS One autumn evening, a traveling monk visits Suma Bay (near Suma Ward in present-day Kobe City). He notices on the shore a pine tree which seems to have a mysterious story. When he asks a villager about the story, the villager tells him that it is a grave marker for two young diver sisters, Matsukaze and Murasame. After the monk recites a sutra and prays for the comfort of their souls, he decides to ask for lodging at a salt-making hut and waits for the return of the owner. Then, two young beautiful women, who have finished working under the moon, taking water from the sea, come back to the hut with a cart. The monk asks them for accommodation for one night. After they enter the hut, the monk recites the poems of Ariwara no Yukihira, who had some tie with the place, and explains that he has just consoled the souls of Matsukaze and Murasame at the old pine tree. The women suddenly begin to sob. Asked the reas