Made for performances in the aragoto 荒事, or ‘rough style’ of kabuki acting inspired by the costumes of the Shibaraku play. The antique washi paper used in the garment is from a kabuki playwright (Kaburi-mono) and bookkeepers recordings of a sake brewery. The mask is representing a kumadori 隈取 face painting of Kamakura Gongorō, a stereotypically represent kabuki in the West. The voluminous trousers is styled as suō 素袍 or sashinuki (指貫), also called nu-bakama. Its form is based on the everyday costume of soldiers.