Masks, interface of past and future: Nomura Mannojo's Shingigaku.

From: Asian Theatre Journal | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Fukushima, Yoshiko | Copyright information 
 
   To Manzo 
   Sending my thousands of thoughts 
   Curtain closes 
 
   Manzo ni 
   Mankan no omoi o komete 
   Senshuraku 
 
   --Mannojo, quoted on his deathbed 
   Asahi Newspaper, 20 July 2004

Kyogen actor Nomura Mannojo developed Shingigaku ("true" gigaku), a performance that, through research in East and Central Asia, attempted to revitalize the mask performance genre of Japan's seventh to thirteenth centuries. Inspired by twentieth-century European work that ...

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