NOH & KYOGEN

THE SHOGUN & NOH'S EARLY YEARS Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu During the Muromachi period in Japan, 1374, the third shogun witnessed a performance by Zeami Motokiyo and his father, Kan'ami Kiyotsugo....

NOH STAGE

Noh Stage at Night Noh stage at Itsukushima Jinja is said to be from 1590, the oldest in Japan With the Great Torli (sacred gate) on Miyajima Island This information about the Noh stage...

NOH CHARACTERS, PLOTS & PLAYS

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyoviews/1954538146 4 Kanazawa Noh Museum PLAY LINKS: http://www.the-noh.com/en/plays/index.html...

KABUKI

 http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com/2011/10/kabuki-theater/ http://www.kabuki21.com/section.php ...

KABUKI STAGE

Interior of a Kabuki theatre, coloured woodcut triptych by Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1800; in the British Museum. Credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum & Britannica.com Traditional...

BUNRAKU

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SARUGAKU

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/a-sarugaku-performance-for-lord-higashiyama-higashiyama-dono-sarugaku-k%C3%B4gy%C3%B4-no-zu-51318 4 "Sarugaku(猿楽), literally "monkey fun", was a form of theatre...

KAGURA

Lion Dance by Chikanobu Toyohara - 1838-1912 (see this print on its original page by clicking on it -- UPDATE SOON) SHINTO THEATRICAL DANCE - "GOD-ENTERTAINMENT" NOTES  FROM WIKIPEDIA Kagura...

DENGAKU

http://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc13483 7 Dengaku (田楽）were rustic Japanese celebrations that can be classified into two types: dengaku that developed as a musical accompaniment to rice planting observances...

BUTOH

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SUPER KABUKI

BUILDING FROM THE PAST Super Kabuki Ichikawa Ennosuke III -- “Yamato Takeru,” the first so-called super kabuki, combining traditional movement with modern technology  ...

FIELD TRIP

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PLAYS IN CHURCHES

Liturgical Drama Santa Maria del Fiore - aka "The Duomo" - Florence 1. THE STAGING OF LITURGIC DRAMA IN THE TENTH CENTURY Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, drew up the Concordia Regularis,...

PROCESSIONAL AND PAGEANT PLAYS

THEATER THAT MOVED When the Christian dramas moved out of churches, they kept moving -- actually moving on wheels. The Pageant play, enacted on "pageant cars," might remind us of a parade today. ...

PAGEANT WAGONS

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LUCERNE PASSION PLAY

Lucerne, Switzerland - 1583 Renward Cysat's play from 1583 And a modern version of his plan by Leacroft...

VALENCIENNES PASSION PLAY

A FRENCH PASSION PLAY As Christianity spread, liturgical dramas flourished. A way of communicating Biblical narratives to a population that could not read (let alone read Latin), early liturgical...

EVERYMAN

A PLAY ABOUT EVERY MAN Here begynneth a treatyse how þe hye Fader of Heven sendeth Dethe to somon every creature to come and gyve acounte of theyr lyves in this worlde, and is in maner of a morall...

THE CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE & EVERYMAN

ENGLISH MORALITY PLAY The Castle of Perseverance, staged around 1425,  tells of a character -- called Mankind -- moving from life to death and Judgment. An allegory for all mankind, this character...