SHITE Kagekiyo old and blind

TSURE Hime his daughter, called also Hitomaru

TOMO Her attendant

WAKI A villager

CHORUS

The scene is in Hinga.




KAGEKIYO


HIME AND TOMO (chanting)
What should it be; the body of dew, wholly at the mercy of wind?

HIME
I am a girl named Hitomaru from Kamega-engayatsu,
My father, Akushichi-bioye Kagekiyo,
Fought by the side of Heike,
And is therefore hated by Genji.
He was banished to Miyazaki in Hinga,
To waste out the end of his life.