• Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清) (c. 1363 – c. 1443), also called Kanze Motokiyo (観世 元清), was a Japanese aesthetician, actor, and playwright. His father, Kan'ami...
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    been performed since the 14th century. Developed by Kan'ami and his son Zeami, it is the oldest major theater art that is still regularly performed today...
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    Zeami is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976, after the Japanese dramatist and playwright Zeami...
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  • 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...
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  • the original on January 18, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2022. Zeami (2008). Zeami, performance notes. Translated by Hare, Tom. New York: Columbia University...
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    (1358–1408), the shōgun of Japan, he implored Zeami to have a court education for his arts. After Zeami succeeded his father, he continued to perform...
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    Retrieved 2007-04-01. Zeami. "Teachings on Style and the Flower (Fūshikaden)." from Rimer & Yamazaki. On the Art of the Nō Drama. p20. "Zeami and the Transition...
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    in The Way of Tea, "Sado 茶道". Fuhaku based his process from the works of Zeami Motokiyo, the master of Noh, which then became a part of the philosophy...
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    Renaissance theatre and Jesuit drama, leading to the 17th-century French drama. Zeami Motokiyo (c. 1363–1443) was a Japanese actor and author. He wrote several...
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  • Kanze Kiyotsugu (観世 清次). He is the father of the well-known playwright Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清). Kan'ami's career began in Obata, Nabari-shi, Mie when...
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  • the will of Richard Whittington. 1434 – Japanese Noh actor and playwright Zeami Motokiyo is exiled to Sado Island by the Shōgun. 1438: 28 April – Completion...
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    in the union of the sarugaku, with music and dance made by Kan'ami and Zeami Motokiyo. Among the characteristic aspects of it are the masks, costumes...
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    for the culmination of the tournament echoes the words of the playwright Zeami to represent the excitement of the decisive bouts and the celebration of...
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    Artaud, Edward Gordon Craig, Charles Dullin, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Motokiyo Zeami. 1946: Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) 1947: Romeo and...
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    many Noh plays based on The Tale of Genji. It is sometimes attributed to Zeami Motokiyo or to his son-in-law Zenchiku; the extant version of the text is...
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    ancestors by Zeami Motokiyo, the premiere Noh playwright in history, who attributed the origins of Noh to Hata no Kawakatsu. According to Zeami's writings...
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    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...
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  • Archbishop of Prague, writer, composer and poet (died 1400) c. 1363 – Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清), Japanese Noh actor and playwright (died c. 1443) 1364...
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  • Atsumori (敦盛, Atsumori) is a Japanese Noh play by Zeami Motokiyo which focuses on Taira no Atsumori, a young samurai who was killed in the Genpei War...
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  • Yugao is a Noh play, sometimes attributed to Zeami, based on the story of Yūgao (Lady Moonflower) from the Tale of Genji. A travelling priest is drawn...
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    quickly. The concept, elaborated on at length by master Noh playwright Zeami, governs not only the actions of the actors, but also the structure of the...
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    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...
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  • is also used in traditional Japanese Noh drama, particularly by Zeami Motokiyo. Zeami, in his work Sandō (The Three Paths), originally described a five-part...
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  • works on Noh, Nōgaku, and medieval Japan. Utage no shintai: Basara kara Zeami e (宴の身体 バサラから世阿弥へ), Iwanami Shoten、1991 Nō: Chūsei kara no hibiki (能 中世からの響き)...
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  • 4 unknown, rev. Zeami Arashiyama 嵐山 1 Komparu Zenpō Aridōshi 蟻通 4 Zeami Asagao 朝顔(槿) ? ??? Ashikari The Reed Cutter 芦刈 or 葦刈 4 Zeami Asukagawa Asuka River...
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    Salieri in Amadeus, Kitagawa Utamaro in the musical Utamaro, and Zeami Motokiyo in Musical Zeami. Whirlwind (1964) – Jūbei Nichiren (1979) – Hōjō Tokiyori Final...
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  • is a frequently-performed Noh play of the fifth category attributed to Zeami Motokiyo. Its central character is the legendary mountain hag, Yama-uba...
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    no Ki (The Potted Trees) is also the title of a circa 1383 noh play by Zeami Motokiyo, based on a story about an impoverished samurai who burns his last...
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  • Noh play by an unknown author, written in the 15th century. The fact that Zeami wrote a revised version of the play, called Koi no omoni ("Love's Heavy...
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    Saigyōzakura (西行桜, Saigyō's cherry tree) is a Noh play by Zeami about the famous poet Saigyō, regarding his well-known love for cherry blossoms. Saigyō...
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