I went to a Noh play 15 years ago and i fell asleep and nobody woke me up until the end. Then one of the actors came to thank me. I thought he was being cheeky and told him i was so sorry for falling asleep. He then told me in the most serious voice, "Asleep is one of the best ways to appreciate Noh".

they mean business when that flute starts playing

This kind of theatre is so bizarre, yet somehow very beautiful.

*inhales* YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I’m half Chinese and have Japanese heritage and I honestly think it’s just gorgeous

As one who studied and performed Noh and Kyogen theatre in a troop called Theatre of Yugen based in San Francisco CA for almost 2 decades. Though retired in 2004 and at 75 Yrs now I could hardly do any of these movements. I did more of Kyogen which is one act comedy relief between Noh dramas which are as you can see here very intense and complicated stories with spiritual/philosophical and esoteric fantasies for the most part. These performances usually went all day with multiple stories so there has to be relief from utterly stern Noh dramas. Music accompaniment alone as well as singing is so very specialized not to mention movements that takes years to gain control since everything must adhere to set traditional compositions. There are 5 Noh gaku (theatre) schools or styles even though the difference maybe hard for audience member to differentiate. Every movement is dictated by certain pattern of foot and hand coordination and as you can see foot movements are almost always sliding. They are the most uncomfortable body use of moving until your body start to own it It's pretty much the same as opera repertoires more you study the program more you understand and appreciate. Oh one important aspect of Noh drama is that there are 2 parts broken by intermediary actor explaining who the main character is and what/why he or she has appeared in the first place, Then she/he comes back as the true form of ghost /spiritual character till conclusion of story. And only main character wears a mask as default. Those masks can be hundreds years old as private props in head master's treasures. Many repertoire is based on historical person or occurrence that's why it helps to study the stories before you view performances

God Japan is a different world altogether. So unique despite being so close to the Chinese and Koreans.

Сегодня у меня самый ужасный день, и я рада что есть эта запись Я нахожу сдесь спокойствие

Thanks for making these great performances available for us people in the west.

Wunderschön Toll Danke sehr.

When the dude went "YOW!" i felt that.

I was born in Portugal, 1984, always lived in Portugal. As a kid, my parents listened to some classical music, so I grew fond of it. In my teens I discovered about Opera, and how the "majority" of pieces (as I found back then) where spoken in the Italian language. Slowly I developed some form of understanding, mostly due to translations I could find online. In parallel, I also enjoyed a lot of japanese anime as a teen (Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Rurouni Kenshin, Neon Genesis Evangelion, etc etc etc) - and eventually I even learned a bit of Japanese - even going to studying the first like 100 Kanji. All the while, I kept listening to classical music and developed a love for especially Symphonies - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, etc etc. Eventually I found out about traditional Japanese music. Such a shock it was and also so mesmerizing. It still is to this day. Just the few minutes at the start of this performance, all the sounds and rhythms sound very different from "classical", but regardless are just so interesting and SOOO captivating! The sounds and musical structure feel so different from like the typical italian Opera, yet at the same time, the performance is so entrancing and captivating. I don't mean any disrespect by the comparison, it's just the way I'm able to try and interpret the music. I feel like this Japanese style is an open window to a depth of immeasurable wealth of knowledge of the human soul, regardless of where and when you are born. It's truly remarkable. I find myself locked in this performance. Well done and thanks for the share.

This is why I love KZfaq.

I started to watch just to see how Noh was performed, and thought I'd just watch some minutes; now I've watch it all and am very thankful that (at least for me) thete were no advertational breaks. Thank you to all performers!

I think it's fierce the way they execute their movements, the walking, the drums.

Kebudayaan seperti ini sangat bagus, sangat suka bagaimana orang hepang mengapresiasi kebudayaannya dan dunia mengakuinya. Mereka sangat hebat☺️

Beautiful! Thank you for making public this production.

Such a spirited performance. Thank you for upload!

Thank you for including subtitles. I would love to watch one live in the future!

Interesting story. I love how simple noh is. It reminds me of the theory of Sublime in art. Awe in nature, the emotions it brings, and personal connections.

I have been listening to records of Nō since decades ago but never seen it played. This is even more fascinating (thanks to the subtitles).

Splendid. Thank you for the magnificent play

I wonder if the monk prayed for Tomoe. It ended as a cliffhanger.

Beautiful and moving performance. Thank you for the subtitles in this haunting and profound story.

Amazing performance. Watching these performances has increased my patience a lot. The English subtitles help a lot. Thank you.

This is so beautiful.

Thank you Fate/Grand Order for making me interested in reading about the Genpei War and literary works related to it, allowing me to find this gem. Love from Bangladesh.

Greatest performance I've seen all year!!!

nice to see young people in NOH perfomance....

raw, pure, incorruptible art

Brilliant. Mysterious. Beautiful. Thank you! I am mystified how this combination of seemingly odd techniques, performed in a language I don’t speak, reflecting a culture of which I have no experience can rivet me to my screen for an hour and make me crave more. Great art is truly transcendent. Bravo.

Beauty that trascends every barrier.

Beautiful performance. At the same time it sounds haunting when that flute is playing, very dramatic. I love it!

Thank you very much! Great thetre form. Greetings from Armenia.

Stage art in low motion. Takes a lot of patience to watch

Thank you very much for sharing with us this ancient epic story, for teaching us gentleness and nobility, the value of silence, the very very subtle Beauty. These type of cultural gems are priceless. I bow in respect. Domo Arigato

I am an American, and have been interested in Japanese stage plays since I was young, very impressed with the “young drummer on the left he shows serious dedication and he along with the other musicians demand “ Much”respect ; Domo Arigato, for showing this Art of Japan .

Thanks for this beatutiful video, and for the subtitles .💗

Elegant,symmetric thrilling and poetical.I'm happy that I'm glad I saw it.😍 Love from Sweden💛💙

This is a fascinating watch and a sad story. I find it to be very profound.

Pure Beauty. Wonderful

最初は新鮮だから楽しいけど、 30分後に寝る自信がある

😮wow! Great performance 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

THIS SO BEAUTIFUL AND CALMING IM IN LOVE WITH THIS TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENT OF JAPAN AND THE KABUKI

Captivating!

Thats so marvelous !

this is so inspiring loveit🎉🎉❤❤

thanks for sharing ;D

Riveting! So alien yet so moving.

Very interesting performance. I was one of the viewers of the zoom call about this play, and that too was interesting and educational. When I was an undergraduate in university, I took part in a short workshop where we got to do a tiny bit of Kanze Ryu, and that was a great experience. I would love to be able to learn more about it. When I lived in Tokyo several years ago, I went to the Yari Noh Theater, the inside looks pretty much the same as it did then.

I've never seen anything like this before. This type of performance is so haunting, and I was drawn into every movement!

It was pretty slow in the first part, but the ending when they were explaining Tomoe's deeds at the end of the battle, and how she gave up being a warrior in order to carry on a legacy was great stuff.

Very interesting, thank you. It's hard for non Japanese. I sense there are ghosts, the Buddhist themes, deeply Japanese themes perhaps kami of places, objects etc. But equally Shakespeare is very difficult for modern western audiences: the classical world, magic, English history, places, old names. I appreciate the costumes very much.

I've seen this play live here in San Francisco. In fact, this coming Sunday, May 28, I'm going to see a different Noh play.

This was fascinating!! So interesting to watch.

Strange but fascinating this sad story of Tomoe.

this is so cool. I'd love to see in real life. the compostions are awesome.

I thought I would watch the first 10 minutes or so of this to get an idea of what Noh is like but I ended up watching the whole thing. Very interesting.

This is terrifying

Awesome.

Wow this is different level of opera! Very interesting... I just wanted to have a peek as I love Chinese operas. But got me hooked.... Wow!

Powerful

The pace of these plays make an hour seem like an entire day.

If I am here and watched the whole performance and thanks to FromSoftware. In their title "Sekiro", it mentions Tomoe, however it is cut content. Then they reworked her and put her back in Elden Ring as Malenia. Magnificent performance. At times I shivered from the intensity

No words to describe this magnificent performance and to express my gratitude.

Arte imprescindível ❤

Exceptional culture great performance 👍👍👍👍👍

This stuff was Doom Metal long before Black Sabbath. Respect.

This is why I believe the arts are very important aside to STEM

watching this high asf is an experience for sure

Iv'e just watched blue eyed samurai, now I'm here

Thank you for sharing this w the world, what a rare treat

this is old traditional asmr threatre

Well, now I can't sleep.

This is very interesting.

On the one hand, I find this interesting and would like to see this play live. On the other hand, I can't, cause I would giggle like a child.

Good art

Ciao complimenti eureka io di Roma adoro il Giappone bis 👍💪👏🎉🌻🤩💕😊

J'avais monté le son au max dans mon casque au début parce que j'entendais rien et la flûte a commencé à crier. Je n'ai plus d'ouïe.

I’m so struck that the woman warrior resents “ the bitterness of being a woman. “ and abandoned.

What is surprising is even though it appears relatively sparse, there's a whole lot going on.

素晴らしいぞ

saludos desde jutiapa , Guatemala ; me gusto mucho la obra ...muy bella como estar en un sueño y un trance a la vez..

It's taken me years to realise that i can fit a busy mental rythmic drum pattern between the sparse hand drum strikes which helps to supplement the pace.

It would be nice to see the translated words instead of "Character talks to the monk for five minutes."

良かったです

アップありがとうございます。私のFBで紹介させていただきますね。

Who knew tmnt fandom could bring me to such a beautifull performance (I was researching things abt ninjas n got really sidetracked, haha) Tysm for sharing!

My tinnitus when I turn off everything and try to sleep: 00:19

nice

yooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

coool

I don't have a clue whats going on But this is cool and very entertaining to watch

最初のスロー加減で「マジかよ…」と思っていましたが、最後はどういうわけか号泣してました ティッシュの山ができてます ジョン・レノンも能を見て号泣したらしいが、わかる気がする 本物を見てみたいです 能が今まで残っている理由が分かりました

What noh theater understood is dance is a language.

I need to get out more💜

here because of the book In praise of shadows

Inspired to look this up because of the Shogun series. I’m curious if the opera performance is exactly the same or do they have similar sound.

I know the story of Gozen Tomoe and her husband. They were of the Taira clan and fought one of the most famous battles of that era. I used to tell that story to children at the Asian Art museum, San Francisco.

『文化的時間、その時代の(心の)時の流れ、それは”芸”でしか繋ぎ止め、保管できないのかもしれない』と、 能、狂言、古の”芸”を見るたび思う。その中にあって、長く生き残るリズムの尊さよ。 一方、失われた「時」のリズムと、急かされる「時」のリズムの違和感が、人々を引きさく感覚に及ぶと、 人と世界の幸福のリズムに思いを馳せない、・・・わけには、いかないものだ。