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Zeami
(c. 1363 – c. 1443), also called , was a Japanese aesthetician, actor, and playwright. His father, Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, introduced him to Noh theater performance at a young age, and found that he was a skilled actor. Kan'ami was also skilled in acting and formed a family theater ensemble. As it grew in popularity, Zeami had the opportunity to perform in front of the Shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. The Shōgun was impressed by the young actor and began to compose a love affair with him. Zeami was introduced to Yoshimitsu's court and was provided with an education in classical literature and philosophy while continuing to act. In 1374, Zeami received patronage and made acting his career. After the death of his father in 1385, he led the family troupe, a role in which he found greater success. Zeami mixed a variety of Classical and Modern themes in his writing, and made use of Japanese and Chinese traditions. He incorporated numerous themes of Zen Buddhism into his works and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeami (crater)
Zeami is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976, after the Japanese dramatist and playwright Zeami Motokiyo. Hollows are present within Zeami. The crater Stevenson is to the northeast of Zeami. Sophocles is to the south, and Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and e ... is to the southwest. Views File:Mariner 10 image 0000215.png, Mariner 10 image with Zeami at center File:Zeami crater EN0242670906M.jpg, Zeami crater interior File:Zeami crater EN0244776604M.jpg, Oblique view across northern Zeami crater File:Zeami crater hollows EN1052296413M.jpg, Detail of hollow in northern Zeami crater File:Hollows within Zeami crater PIA19267.jpg, Another detail of hollows in the crater External links Zeami in color from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konparu Zenchiku
was a skilled Japanese Noh actor, troupe leader, and playwright. His plays are particularly characterized by an intricate, allusive, and subtle style inherited from Zeami which convolved yūgen with influences from Zen Buddhism (his Zen master was Ikkyū) and Kegon. Actors should strive for unconscious performance, in which they enters the "circle of emptiness"; such a state of being is the highest level of artistic or religious achievement. He lived, worked, and died in the Nara area of Japan. He was trained by Zeami and his son, Motomasa (died 1432), eventually marrying a daughter of Zeami. At some point he took the artistic name Komparu Ujinobu and then finally Komparu Zenchiku. In 1443, he became the leader of the Kanze acting troupe and thus the second successor to Zeami Motokiyo. Zeami passed on his secret teachings to Zenchiku, apparently prompting Zeami's exiling; this refusal to transmit to his blood descendants also prompted a split between the Komparu school and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanze Motomasa
Kanze Motomasa (1394? - August 26, 1432), also Kanze Jūrō, was a playwright and actor of Noh theatre. He was the eldest son of famed playwright and actor Zeami Motokiyo. Motomasa succeeded as head of the Kanze troupe when his father retired in 1422."Kanze Motomasa", ''Japan Illustrated Encyclopedia,'' 1993, Kodansha Ltd. ISBN 4-06-931098-3. Plays Motomasa wrote many plays, including ''Morihisa,'' ''Sumida River'', ''Uta-ura,'' and ''Yoroboshi''.Leiter, Samuel L., ''Historical Dictionary of Traditional Japanese Theatre'', 2014. pp. xvii, 160-161. ISBN 0-8108-5527-5. ''Yoroboshi'' is a didactic play that encourages the audience to follow the mediation method of Pure Land Buddhism while the sun sets. It also features a love story. ''Sumida River'' is Motomasa's masterpiece. A deranged mother travels from the capital to eastern Japan in search of her kidnapped son, only to find his tomb. A somber tone is established early on and there is very little dancing in this play. When the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsukaze
is a play of the third category, the woman's mode, by Kan'ami, revised by Zeami Motokiyo. One of the most highly regarded of Noh plays, it is mentioned more than any other in Zeami's own writings, and is depicted numerous times in the visual arts. Plot The two main characters are the lingering spirits of the sisters and , who in the 9th Century lived on the Bay of Suma in Settsu Province, where they ladled brine in order to make salt. A courtier, Middle Counsellor Ariwara no Yukihira, dallied with them during his exile to Suma for three years. Shortly after his departure, word of his death came and they died of grief. They linger on as spirits or ghosts, attached to the mortal world by their emotional attachment to mortal desires: this is a common theme in Noh. The play opens with a traveling priest asking a local about a memorial he sees. The local explains that the memorial is to the two sisters. This is followed by a scene in which the sisters, ladling seawater into their b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo-ha-kyū
is a concept of modulation and movement applied in a wide variety of traditional Japanese arts. Roughly translated to "beginning, break, rapid", it essentially means that all actions or efforts should begin slowly, speed up, and then end swiftly. This concept is applied to elements of the Japanese tea ceremony, to the samurai sword art of kenjutsu, to the bamboo sword training art of kendō, and to other martial arts, to dramatic structure in the traditional theatre, and to the traditional collaborative linked verse forms renga and renku (haikai no renga). The concept originated in ''gagaku'' court music, specifically in the ways in which elements of the music could be distinguished and described. Though eventually incorporated into a number of disciplines, it was most famously adapted, and thoroughly analysed and discussed by the great Noh playwright Zeami, who viewed it as a universal concept applying to the patterns of movement of all things. Theatre It is perhaps in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekidera Komachi
{{nihongo, ''Sekidera Komachi'', 関寺小町, Komachi at Sekidera is a famous Noh play of the third category (plays about women) by Zeami Motokiyo. Its central character is a real life figure, the great 9th-century poet Ono no Komachi, who was also famed for her beauty. The play depicts Komachi at the end of her life, when her beauty has faded and she is living in great poverty. On the evening of the seventh day of the seventh month, during the Festival of Stars, the Abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The ... of Sekidera visits her in her hut, taking two priests and a child, so that they can hear her talk about poetry. During the course of their conversation, the abbot realizes her identity and is astonished and delighted. He invites her to come with them to the fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kan'ami
was a Japanese Noh actor, author, and musician during the Muromachi period. Born in Iga Province, Kan'ami also went by and . He is the father of the well-known playwright . Theater Kan'ami's career began in Obata, Nabari-shi, Mie when he founded a sarugaku theater group in the Kansai region on the main Honshu island. The troupe moved to Yamato and formed the Yuzaki theater company, which would become the school of Noh theater. He grew in popularity and began making trips to Kyoto to give performances. In 1374, the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was in the audience of a performance and was so impressed by it that he became Kan'ami's patron. Kan'ami was the first playwright to incorporate the Kusemai song and dance style and Dengaku dances from rustic harvest celebrations. He trained his son Zeami Motokiyo in his style, and his son eventually succeeded him as director of the Kanze school of Noh. Kan'ami died in Suruga Province. Notable works *''Sotoba Komachi'' *''Ji'nen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izutsu
' is a classic Noh play written by Zeami, the dominant figure in the early history of Noh theatre. ''Izutsu'' is based on an old story, ''Tsutsu-Izutsu'' (筒井筒), from the ''Ise monogatari'', a 10th-century collection of stories, many of which are based on stories about the romantic encounters of a "certain man", traditionally identified as the poet Ariwara no Narihira. ''Tsutsu-Izutsu'' A boy and a girl knew each other from early childhood. They were good friends and one of their games was to see who was taller by measuring each other against the local well. As they grew older, they began to feel more self-conscious in each other's company and they drifted apart, although they continued to love each other. The girl's parents offered to find her a husband, but she declined as she still had feelings for the boy. The boy eventually composes a ''tanka'': : 筒井筒 井筒にかけし まろがたけ 生いにけらしな 妹見ざる間に :The wooden frame f t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atsumori (play)
' is a Japanese Noh play by Zeami Motokiyo which focuses on Taira no Atsumori, a young samurai who was killed in the Genpei War, and his killer, Kumagai Naozane. Atsumori's death is portrayed tragically in the ''Heike monogatari'' (''Tale of the Heike''), from which this and many other works stem. Background Atsumori, roughly 16 years old at the time of the battle of Ichi-no-Tani (1184), was killed by the Minamoto warrior Kumagai Naozane. In the ''Heike monogatari'' and many works derived from it, this is focused upon as a particularly tragic episode. Atsumori is also, like many of his Taira brethren, portrayed as a courtier and poet, not truly prepared for battle. He is said to have carried a flute into battle, evidence of his peaceful, courtly nature as well as his youth and naïveté. Kumagai also notes that none of his fellow Genji (Minamoto) warriors were cultivated to a point where they would ride into battle with a flute. Royall Tyler's analysis, preceding his translatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamanba (Noh Play)
' is a frequently-performed Noh play of the fifth category attributed to Zeami Motokiyo. Its central character is the legendary mountain hag, Yama-uba. A female dancer, called "Hyakuma Yamanba" because of her frequent performances of songs about the character, embarks on a pilgrimage to Zenkōji in Shinano Province, accompanied by her attendants. While travelling north-east on the Koshi road, they arrive at the river boundary between Etchu Province and Echigo Province. The road beyond diverges in three directions, and they ask for directions from a local, who advises them that Agero Pass is far too steep for a litter, as it is "the path Amida himself takes as he descends to receive souls." The dancer decides that, as she is a pilgrim, it is fitting that she descend from her litter and proceed on foot, taking that very path. They have not gone far when the sun sets unexpectedly, and they are offered lodgings by a mysterious old woman, who, after they accept, demands that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
was the third '' shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate, ruling from 1368 to 1394 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimitsu was Ashikaga Yoshiakira's third son but the oldest son to survive, his childhood name being Haruō (). Yoshimitsu was appointed ''shōgun'', a hereditary title as head of the military estate, in 1368 at the age of ten; at twenty he was admitted to the imperial court as Acting Grand Counselor (''Gon Dainagon'' ). In 1379, Yoshimitsu reorganized the institutional framework of the Gozan Zen establishment before, two years later, becoming the first person of the warrior (samurai) class to host a reigning emperor at his private residence. In 1392, he negotiated the end of the Nanboku-chō imperial schism that had plagued politics for over half a century. Two years later he became Grand Chancellor of State ('' Dajō daijin'' ), the highest-ranking member of the imperial court. Retiring from that and all public offices in 1395, Yoshimitsu took the ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sado, Niigata
is a Cities of Japan, city located on in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Since 2004, the city has comprised the entire island, although not all of its total area is urbanized. Sado is the sixth largest island of Japan in area following the four List of islands of Japan, main islands and Okinawa Island (excluding the Kuril Islands dispute, Northern Territories). As of March 1, 2022, the city has an estimated population of 49,897 and a population density of 58.3 persons per square kilometre. The total area is 855.69 km2. History Political formation of the island The large number of pottery artifacts found near Ogi in the South of the island demonstrate that Sado was populated as early as the Jōmon period. The ''Nihon Shoki'' mentions that Mishihase people visited the island in 544 (although it is unknown whether Tungusic people effectively came). The island formed a distinct Provinces of Japan, province, the Sado Province, separate from the Echigo province on Honshū, at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
