From Representation to Apotheosis: No's Modern Myth of Okina.

From: Asian Theatre Journal | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: Rath, Eric C. | Copyright information

Modern discussions of ritual and the origins of the six-hundred-year-old Japanese no theatre have focused on the enigmatic Okina dance--one of the "three rites," shikisanban, enacted today by performers at the New Year's and other ceremonial occasions. For modern no actors, Okina is the heart of no: a living prototype of the ritual theatre no once supposedly embodied but somehow lost. Yet Okina's very rituality differentiates it from no. Hence Okina is cited both as an archetype of...

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