A number of No dramas fall into the category of Shuramono, No of fighting scene, and most of them, if not all, are based on some stories from Heikemonogatari. All the major Shuramono pieces are now recognized as the works of No dramatist Zeami's authorship. Among them is one called Tsunemasa with Tairano Tsunemasa as its Shite or a hero, to which special attention must be paid as it is a one-act (single-type) No, while other Shuramono usually consists of two acts (double-type). Normal two-act type Shuramono shows in its second act a scene adapted from Heikemonogaiari, in which a hero dies on the battlefield. This death scene is necessitated by the author's dramaturgical intention to present an tormenting scene of a hero just about to depart this world by way of a symbolical spectacle of fight fought eternally between a hero soldier who is driven mad by wrath and therefore doomed to be defeated and Taishakuten, a guardian diety of Buddhism, in Shurado (one of Hades in Buddhism) where every soldier who has bleached his bones on the bettleground must go after his death. In the description of a hero's last momet in the later act of double-type Shuramono, the author usually goes into minute detail. However, it is not the same with one-act Tsunemasa with only a few lines depicting his end. It is that Zeami wrote it in quite a different way from two-act plays - Zeami, making effective use of those phrases in the Sutras which describe the agony of everlasting toward the end of that drama, makes armed Tsunemasa suffer from the same agony as expressed in the Sutras with the result that there are double images overlapping each other on the stage : one image of Tsunemasa on the brink of death on this side of Heaven and the other of agony-ridden Tsunemasa in the nether regions, who can never escape from eternal fighting. One night, a Buddhist mass is held for the repose of Tsunemasa at Nimnaji Temple where he once served as a page. Tsunemasa's spirit is lead to the mass attracted by the melody of the biwa as he himself was very good at playing the instrument. Tsunemasa's ghost joins the players and enjoys himself for a while. In the course of merriment, his excitement goes beyond his control until at last he comes to betray the violent anger from which no one fallen into Shurado is free. Carried away by wrath, the ghost starts a fierce battle. During the battle he suffers from scorching hell are, which overlaps the burning light at the memorial service. In this scene, the burning light is of much importance as it is supposed to illuminate Tusnemasa's face twisted with agony. When Tsunemasa finally becomes aware that his unsightly figure as a ghost from the hell of Shurado is watched by all the people present at the service, he hurries back to Shurado blowing out the light. It is also to be noticed that there are scattered all over the text of Tsunemasa many verses cited from Wakanroeishu.

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