He points in the opposite direction, winking at samurai 2 and 3.
SAMURAI 2, 3: Right, this way, this way.
MURASAKI: Was it really?
Murasaki starts to go in the opposite direction. PEOPLE: That way, that
way.
Murasaki heads back again.
SECOND SAMURAI: Hey!
SAMURAI 1, 3: This way, we’re telling you this way.
The samurai lead Murasaki forcibly in the direction opposite from the
one in which Kagekiyo went.
PEOPLE: But—
The people start to follow, but the first samurai glowers at them.
Samurai 1, 2: Dance! PEOPLE: Dance!
The people from the festival dance peacefully.
So very numerous the votive tablets the sound of bells on a priestess
dancing a bugaku dance in the rising tide lanterns not autumn stars reflect
in the autumn-dyed mountains a deer cries I bow my head in prayer with a
quiet heart I’ll go from island to island I board the boat from the sandbank
at the toru untie the line that strings us to the shore and push off the oars’
sweep beats a single rhythm a peaceful cheery song.
The dancing people move away as they dance.
Then, as if nothing has happened, Kagekiyo appears on the corridor. He
walks from stage right to stage left. When he reaches the middle of the
stage the lights are extinguished.
(Curtain.)
