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Noh play
is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. It is Japan's oldest major theater art that is still regularly performed today. Noh is often based on tales from traditional literature featuri ...
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Theme
A man separates from his first wife and his daughter, but keeps his son with his second wife, who is urged by him to look after both the boy and the bamboo grove while he is on pilgrimage. Suspecting the son has complained of her to his actual parents, the stepmother sends him out, coatless, to brush the winter snow off the bamboos.
After the boy dies of exposure in the bamboo grove, his sister and mother sing a song of despair, before the pious reconciliation of father and mother brings the dead boy back to life at the close.
Later allusions
*In a haiku offered to a family who had lost their own child,
Bashō alludes to the Noh play: “Withered and bending / Dejected world upside-down / Bamboo of the snow”
*Prints based on the play’s story were not uncommon.
Take no Yuki: Print
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See also
* Torioi(bune)
*Wicked stepmother
''Wicked Stepmother'' is a 1989 American black comedy fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Bette Davis and Barbara Carrera.
It is best known for being the last film of Bette Davis, who withdrew from the proj ...
*Yuki-onna
is a spirit or yōkai in Japanese folklore that is often depicted in Japanese literature, films, or animation.
She may also go by such names as ''yuki-musume'', cited by (雪娘, "snow daughter"), ''yukihime'' (雪姫, "snow princess"), ''yuki- ...
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