Dancers also put leg guards shaped like gaiters, called "Toriashi" (鳥足) and wear Shigai (silk shoes); they put wings on their backs and breast pads on their breasts, made of whitewashed leather or multilayered Japanese paper on which drawings of wings in red and aquamarine ink are made.
足には脚伴の形をした鳥足というすね当てをつけて絲鞋を履き、背と胸に、牛革、又は重ね貼りした和紙に胡粉を引き紅や緑青で羽を描いた翼と胸当てをつける。