Asahina's costumes and makeup as well as his special lines called 'Mosa kotoba' were originally the idea of Denkuro NAKAMURA the First, the Kabuki actor from the seventeenth century.
朝比奈の衣装、得意な隈や「モサ言葉」とばれる科白は17世紀の歌舞伎役者初代中村傳九郎が考案したものである。