To complete the costume, a long, wide sash is passed twice around the waist and gathered behind into an immense butterfly bow and ends.
The hair is arranged in pompadour style, and the back hair brought high up on the top of the head and ornamented with large, showy pins and little fans.
The eyebrows should be penciled black. Two fine black lines, one above the upper and one below the lower eyelash, continued outward, curved slightly upward and meeting just beyond the outer corner of each eye, give quite a Japanese style to the face.
The little “Moonbeam Fairies” should be costumed in similar style as to their garments, but of white or different light-colored material, the sleeves shorter and the sash smaller than in the ladies’ costumes, and white stockings drawn over their shoes.
SAKARA’s costume should be of sombre hues, the face made up for a wrinkled old hag.
LADY CECIL is in well-fitting English travelling costume.
MISS PRENDERGAST, the same, but in accordance with her sixty years. Hair, silver-white.
SCENE I. Flat square cushions, on which the girls kneel, sitting back on their heels in Japanese fashion; loose chrysanthemums; stool in summer-house; girls carry fans in hands or girdles.
SCENE II. Grass or straw rope; Eastern rugs; loose chrysanthemums; guitar or samisen; cushions.
SCENE III. Sock, thimble, needle; dead flower.
SCENE IV. Presents on tray; books; cushions.
SCENE V. Japanese umbrellas, flowers, vases; square low table; cushions.
SCENE I. Background and wings of dark curtains, with masses of real or imitation chrysanthemums. A summer-house raised on a small platform can be made with a Japanese umbrella and a screen, as in diagram.
[Illustration: Plan of stage, showing: Stage Right: Chrysanthemum bed with 1 Up Stage Right: Chrysanthemum bed Up Stage Left: Summer-house 4 with 2 at entrance Stage Left: Chrysanthemum bed with 3 Caption: The dotted lines mark the limits of the Chrysanthemum beds. 1 Totmai. 2 Yuki. 3 Haru. 4 Summer House.]
SCENE III. Perfectly plain screens stretched round the stage. One wooden table, rush-bottomed chair, portmanteau, coats, dressing-case, etc.
SCENE IV. Japanese screens, idols or figures, small cabinet, etc. Sword suspended from screen.