Although the official costume of a player is principally Ikan (costume worn by court nobles and officers when they are on duty at the Imperial Palace) or Kariginu (informal clothes worn by court nobles and officers), shrines and temples, as well as private tradition groups mostly use Hitatare (a kind of traditional Japanese clothes), in keeping with the Gakubu section assigned to Hitatare after the Meiji period.
楽人の正式な装束は衣冠、又は狩衣が原則であるが、明治以降に楽部が直垂を制定して以降は神社仏閣や民間の伝承団体でも直垂を着用する場合が多い。