Japanese Noh Drama Hands-on

14/11/2021

A huge thank you to Munenori Takeda and his colleagues for this morning's excellent workshop!
石原久美さん has just shared these photos from the event with us.

05/11/2021

In Japanese Studies at the University of Edinburgh, we are excited to be building on our collaboration with Noh master Takeda Munenori and his colleagues.
For 2021, they are once again offering a specially curated digital workshop via Zoom, enabling us to experience Noh live from Tokyo in our own homes.
This time their focus is on learning about Japanese music through Noh. Participants will have the opportunity to hear and see the various instruments used in the hayashi music that accompanies Noh plays. The workshop will include a demonstration performance from the play Hagoromo, and will finish with a question and answer session.
The event is free, but registration is required. Priority tickets for student admission are already available using the QR code on the poster below. Please watch this space for further online registration details.
Update: general admission tickets are now available as well, using the same QR code.

04/09/2021

Noh is a masked music and dance drama with a beauty that transcends time. Flowers, birds and animals that constantly change through the four seasons are evok...

31/01/2021

Noh Online: Funa Benkei is available from 29 January to 31 March for free! Yuji Morisawa-sensei, one of the performers of our Noh workshops in November 2018, plays the shoulder drum (小鼓) there! The video is English subtitled.

English website: http://www.tokyo-tradition.jp/2020/eng/program/010/

Japanese website: http://www.tokyo-tradition.jp/2020/program/010/

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20/11/2020

In Japanese Studies at the University of Edinburgh we are delighted to be working once again with noh master Munenori Takeda, this year joined by his cousins Yosh*teru Takeda and Takafumi Takeda. On November 26, they will offer two specially compiled workshops on Zoom, hosted from the noh stage at the family theatre in Tokyo that belongs to Naohiro Takeda, father to Yosh*teru and Takafumi.
Noh is a drama with around 650 years of tradition and the world’s oldest major theatre art that is still regularly performed today. Each session will include some historical background to noh, its origins in ceremony and ritual and its continued religious significance. This will be followed by a short talk on the theme for the session and an opportunity to see a shimai dance performed in traditional Japanese dress, and another in full mask and costume.
Please register on Eventbrite using the links shown on the posters.

18/11/2020

As part of our Noh Project educational activities, we asked first year students studying Japanese to design posters with information in both Japanese and English, to promote the forthcoming Zoom workshops on noh. We are really impressed with the standard and number of designs - well done everyone!