Example sentences for: noh

How can you use “noh” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Derived originally from ritual dances of the imperial court at Nara and Kyoto, in the 14th century noh became a fully developed masked drama of chanting, dancing, and highly stylized acting.

  • I was compelled to pay strict attention (for four or five hours at a time) to setting, lighting, music, gesture, singing, pace of over-all presentation; to this or that role's performance, costume, formal distancing from the audience (Noh) or Globe-like intimacy with the audience (Kabuki); to traditional methods of men's playing women's parts, audience's anticipation and shouted recognition of favorite plays and actors and moments, tone of voice, etc.

  • Besides the main hall and the hall of worship, the shrine complex includes a noh theater stage, a sumo wrestling ring, several teahouses, and the Yushukan museum of war memorabilia.

  • See the best ones at Tokyo’s National Noh Theater, Kanze Kaikan at Shibuya, or Kyoto’s National Noh Theater.

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