Torioi (鳥追, Bird-scaring) or Torioi-bune (鳥追舟, The Bird-scaring Boat) is a Noh play of the fourth category, probably from the 16th century, [1] and possibly by Kongō Yagorō. [2]
An absentee husband and father sets in motion a chain of events whereby the steward left in charge of the family estate gradually exerts power over the mother and her son, Hanawaka. [3]
Eventually the pair are forced into the demeaning activity of bird-scaring from a boat among the ricefields. [4]