CHORUS: From the sky the parent bird is weeping tears of blood.
(The emotion of the dance now suddenly changes. The Hunter falls back a few steps and looks up fearfully. Then, hurling away his stick, he runs and snatches up the hat.)
From the sky fall tears of blood. And I, covering myself with the sedge-hat, with the cloak of straw, attempt to escape the falling tears, dodging this way, now that.
(… Then sinking for a moment to his knees.)
Alas! these are not the enchanted cloak and hat which make invisible their wearer.
(Rising and moving toward the Waki’s pillar.)
Faster and faster fall the tears of blood, until my body cannot escape their mortal touch, until the world turns crimson before my eyes—crimson as the fabled Bridge of Maple Leaves, formed of magpie wings across the sky and at the dawn stained red by the tears of two parting lover-stars.
(Throws the hat violently aside and takes out fan. The Chorus now turns from a description of past events to a recital of the tortures which the Hunter is undergoing in Hell. The dance becomes quieter now, the Hunter using the fan to indicate the actions described. The fan is a large white one on which is painted a bird in flight.)
ZEAMI MOTOKIYO
Birds of Sorrow
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