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Example sentences for: noh

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A short bus ride delivers you to the Kyoto National Museum, which houses the country’s largest collection of Japanese sculpture and painting as well as weapons, traditional armor, and ten centuries of costume including some dazzling noh theater costumes with masks.
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.
These were also halcyon days for the classic noh theater, the more popular kabuki, and the puppet theater (today’s bunraku) at Osaka, which was Japan’s cultural capital at a time when Edo had more politicians and soldiers than artists.
The shrine has a prominent role in the Tale of Genji and in a famous noh play (titled simply Nonomiya), and thus attracts people with especial interest in classical Japanese literature.
Take in the formal beauties of kabuki theater, Zen rock gardens, and ikebana flower arrangements; struggle to stay awake through an entire noh performance.