shiki sanban is the performing art that maintains the style of okina sarugaku (the original form of the present-day okina patterned after an ancient ritualistic ceremony ), which precedes the formation of noh . 能が成立する以前の翁猿楽の様式を留める芸能が式三番である。
it is said that the word ' shinagon ' was derived from " jukkinsho " (a miscellany of ten maxims - chapter 1: shinagon ), and was patterned after a wise man of the liu bang era of han china , called " shiko " ( " shiki ," the lord liu genealogy ). 「四納言」という言葉は、『十訓抄』(第一、四納言事)に由来し、漢の劉邦の時代に実在した「四皓」(『史記』留侯世家)と呼ばれる賢者に擬えられたと言われている。
the mai of this type is limited to that in the waki noh (noh sequence corresponding to shin that is performed first after the okina (a performance art patterned after an ancient ritualistic ceremony )) played by an elderly noh player , as in " oimatsu " (literally , an old pine ), and it is said that , although the tempo is slow , such mai should be danced very smoothly without becoming stagnant . これは「老松」のような老体の脇能に限り、位は重いが運びが停滞しないようにさらさらと演じることを旨とする。