Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of noh.
Among the first foreigners in Japan to have contact with nō were diplomats and intellectuals who appreciated the literary elements of its texts.
2024, Diego Pellecchia, “Reception of Nō in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, in Yamanaka Reiko, Monica Bethe, Eike Grossmann, Tom Hare, Diego Pellecchia, Michael Watson, editors, A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre (Handbook of Oriental Studies; section 5 (Japan), volume 19), volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, section 8 […], page 6712 more examples
The twenty-two kyōgen in this volume give a broad sampling of the delightful comic interludes which were traditionally performed between the more austere nō plays.
1973, Leonard C[abell] Pronko, “Nō and Kyōgen: Texts”, in Guide to Japanese Drama, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 65A major review of the sarugaku system took place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune (1684–1751), when the solemn style of nō theatre known today was largely established.
2014, Monica Bethe, Eric C. Rath, J[ohn] Thomas Rimer, Mikio Takemoto, Theatre of Dreams, Theatre of Play: Nō and Kyōgen in Japan, Sydney, N.S.W.: Art Gallery of New South Wales, →ISBN
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