Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu 観世 小次郎 信光 1435 or 1450 – July 7, 1516 was a Japanese noh playwright and secondary actor during the Muromachi Era , from the house of Kanze . He was the great nephew of Noh playwright Zeami Motokiyo and is considered one of the last important playwrights of the golden age of Noh. He was the author of around 30 plays.
4-544: Among his most famous plays is the play Rashōmon , which employed a pun by spelling the title of the Rajōmon gate using the kanji shō for "life" (羅生門) rather than the original jō for "castle." This reading has left its trace in the title of later stories named Rashōmon and the film of Akira Kurosawa . This article about a Japanese writer, poet, or screenwriter is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rash%C5%8Dmon (Noh play) Rashōmon (羅生門)
8-514: Is a Noh play by Kanze Nobumitsu ( c. 1420 ). Like other celebrated dramas such as the Maodori-hasi and Ibaraki, it is based on the legend of Watanabe no Tsuna and the demon of Rashōmon. The play is set in the context of the final phase of the Heian period , leading up to the rise of rule by the military (by samurai warriors like Tsuna). The title is a pun, which involves
12-454: The Rajōmon (羅城門) outer castle gate but Kanze changed it by using the kanji shō for "life" rather than the original jō for "castle" (note that 羅城門 was originally read raseimon and 生 can also be read as sei ). It is one of the few Noh plays where the supporting waki (脇) rather than the normally leading shite (仕手) dominates the action. It is suggested that this can be attributed to the fact that Nobumitsu used to play waki roles when he
16-515: Was an actor. The s hite character in this play only makes an appearance at the end and has no dialogue. Rashōmon is also a play which follows characters from one venue to another. Act 1 takes place in the dining hall of a general, but in Act 2 the waki character, Tsuna, climbs the Rasho Gate to determine the truth of a story that a demon resides on the gate top. Kikaku wrote a haiku based on
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