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Term · performing arts
Japanese masked dance-drama, given its form in the 14th century by Kan’ami and his son Zeami; the oldest major Japanese theatre still regularly performed. Japan’s classical dance-drama, performed since the 14th century and the oldest of its major theatre arts still regularly played1. Kan’ami and his son Zeami gave it its present form in the Muromachi period2. Masks, costumes and stylised gestures carry the roles — ghosts, women, deities, demons3; comic kyōgen pieces are played between the Noh plays4. Inscribed by UNESCO as Nōgaku theatre in 20085. A play: Yoroboshi. Wikipedia, Noh, “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”. ↩ Ebd., “Kan’ami Kiyotsugu and his son Zeami Motokiyo reinterpreted various traditional performing arts and completed Noh in a significantly different form from the traditional one”. ↩ Ebd., “Emotions are primarily conveyed by stylized conventional gestures while the iconic masks represent specific roles such as ghosts, women, deities, and demons”. ↩ Ebd., “a full nōgaku program included several Noh plays with comedic kyōgen plays in between”. ↩ Ebd., “Noh was inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO as Nōgaku theatre”. ↩ Literatur Wikipedia, Noh: Anon., Noh, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh (zuletzt abgerufen am 28.10.2026).