Japan has 3 very important theater
which is registered as the
Intangible Cultural Heritage
無形文化遺産
Part of UNESCO
which is
Nohgaku, Bunraku, Kabuki
能楽，人形淨瑠璃文楽，歌舞伎
Fortunately
I have all the chance to experience all of this Cultural Theater
all fully sponsor by my scholarship (ASJA)
First I will be introducing
Nohgaku 能楽
★★★★★
(well I will be not explaining about those history stuff )
I will just explain the things that I saw
and my experience of watching it
I went to SuginamiNohgakudou
(more info here)
It is located near Shin-nakano station 新中野駅
東京都杉並区和田一丁目
At that time
My scholarship association booked the hall for us
and there are also experience session
Starting with lecture session by the professional
This SuginamiNohgaku building
has a very interesting story
here the story comes
In long long time ago
(I dunno how long)
In the WWII
(Please don ask me when is it)
There are a fighting and bomb all around the area
As you all know
There are also War Jet
It fires up all over the place
and somehow there is a miracle happened
Only SuginamiNohgaku Building have not being blew up
They believe that the sacred place is being protected by the GODS
and after that they are very grateful
and trying to protect this building
and the Nohgaku Cultural Theatre
till now
This is what I heard in the lecture session
Ok next I will explain what actually is Nohgaku 能楽
(for who wants to know more bout it click here)
★★★★★
We are not allowed to bring our camera in
so I will just have to get some photo from the internet
to explain what I saw inside
(please forgive me.. hahaha)
This is the hall
where the theatre will be performed
Nohgaku 能楽
Registered in UNESCO in year 2001
there are two types of performance
Noh & Kyogen
能＆狂言
From the very beginning
both been performed on the same stage
★★★★★
Noh 能
Noh is through its pursuit of a symbolic ideal beauty
is a performance using various Mask
They said the mask will create different expression
with the view of different angle
I have not get the chance to see this yet
This is one of the performance of Noh
(Taken from youtube)
★★★★★
Kyogen 狂言
Kyogen is through its realistics expression of humor portray the true essence of human nature
and have been passed down to us today in these mutually complementary roles
(I saw this performance)
This Kyogen is being performed using facial expression
and some small item such as fan etc
This performance is basically base on imagination
You will need to imagine there are a tree or river
The dialect that they are using is more easy compare to the other theatres
such as Noh, Bunraku, Kabuki
They are using more to Kansai Dialect
The story of the performance is all base on our daily life
like anger, selfish, crooked etc
This theatre is usually trying to teach the younger generation
to become a better person
not to cheat and be honest
I kinda love this theatre
very interesting (^^,)
After watching it
we get the chance to go up the stage
and learn few steps of how they perform
I can say is kinda hard
One is you must sit on your feet for very long time
and you must walk and run with your feet touch the floor
means you must not raise your leg nor leave your feet from ground
This is one of the performance of Kyogen
(Taken from youtube)
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