*There are sixteen warrior plays (''shuramono'') in the current Noh repertoire; the majority of them draw upon the Heike Monogatari. Figures from the Heike are also the protagonists in 33 of the 50 extant kowaka-mai. (Helen McCullough trans., ''The Tale of the Heike'', Stanford University Press (1990), 9) | *There are sixteen warrior plays (''shuramono'') in the current Noh repertoire; the majority of them draw upon the Heike Monogatari. Figures from the Heike are also the protagonists in 33 of the 50 extant kowaka-mai. (Helen McCullough trans., ''The Tale of the Heike'', Stanford University Press (1990), 9) |