YUMI YAWATA

THE BOW OF HACHIMAN

PERSONS

A retainer of the Cloistered Emperor Go-Uda (waki)

Two of his servants (wakizure)

An old man (shite)

The god of Kawara (nochi-jite)

The old man's companion (tsure)

PLACE

Otokoyama, south of Kyoto (site of the Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine)

TIME

The reign of the Cloistered Emperor Go-Uda (late thirteenth century)

Spring, the second month