1. Interdisciplinary Research on Nōgaku Based on literature sources
2024
・Expansion of The Komparu Family Digital Archive
Newly added to the archive are 3 utaibon (nō libretto) , 2 nō treatises, 9 tsuke, and 67 historical documents from the Hannyakutsu Collection, 120 tsuke from the Komparu Iemoto Collection.
・Expansion of Nō and Kyōgen Materials Comprehensive Digital Archive
Newly added to the archive are 1 commentaries, 53 tsuke, 4 Kyōgen, and 61 historical documents from the Kōzan Collection, 9 utaibon, 2 nō treatises, 9 tsuke, and 67 historical documents from the Hannyakutsu Collection, 520 modern magazines, 500 bibliographic information from Noh Theatre Research Institute Collection.
・Updated: Nō and Kyōgen Rare Materials Digital Collection
Renamed to ‘Nō and Kyōgen Rare Materials Digital Collection’. Newly added to the archive are 50 bibliographic information.
・New publication: Historical Materials on Nō Theatre 9 近世初期囃子伝書集
Reprinting of documents relating to early modern Nō music. Transcribed by 囃子伝書研究会
2023
・Expansion of The Komparu Family Digital Archive
Newly added to the archive are 188 utaibon from the Hannyakutsu Collection, 200 tsuke from the Komparu Iemoto Collection.
・Expansion of Nō and Kyōgen Materials Comprehensive Digital Archive
Newly added to the archive are 215 ancient documents, 195 modern magazines.
・Compilation of a catalogue of Nohgaku materials in the collections of Noh Theatre Research Institute.
A catalogue and bibliography of all approximately 2,000 classical books in the Noh Theatre Research Institute’s collection (excluding library collections) is being prepared by the Institute’s staff on an ongoing basis. The materials are scheduled to be uploaded to the above-mentioned “Expansion of Nō and Kyōgen Materials Comprehensive Digital Archive” by the end of 2024.
・New Release: Nō and Kyōgen Rare Materials Digital Collection
the English language archive that provides access to our unique collections related to nō and kyōgen theater owned and managed by Hosei University Noh Theatre Research Institute. This archive contains 54 images and 4 bibliographic information. Bibliographic information on each material will be updated in due course.
・New publication: Historical Materials on Nō Theatre 8 間狂言資料集成
Collection of Ai kyōgen materials, mainly from the Izumi and Sagi schools, which have many untranscribed materials. Transcribed by 間狂言共同研究会.
2022
・Updated: The Komparu Family Digital Archive
Materials transmitted within the Komparu Family are now renewed as the Komparu Family Digital Archive. Newly added to the archive are 60 documents from the Hannyakutsu Collection and 160 utaibon from the Komparu Iemoto Collection.
・New Release: Nō and Kyōgen Materials Comprehensive Digital Archive
Apart from the existing Digital Archive of Nohgaku Materials (which is not equipped with a search function), a new website, Nō and Kyōgen Materials Comprehensive Digital Archive, has been created to enable cross-search and image browsing of classical and modern Nohgaku magazines held by Noh Theatre Research Institute. Newly added to the archive are 2313 ancient documents, 214 modern magazines. The final data is currently being checked and is scheduled to be released in July 2023.
・Compilation of a catalogue of Nohgaku materials in the collections of Noh Theatre Research Institute.
A catalogue and bibliography of all approximately 2,000 classical books in the Noh Theatre Research Institute’s collection (excluding library collections) is being prepared by the Institute’s staff on an ongoing basis. It is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023 and uploaded to the above-mentioned “Nō and Kyōgen Materials Comprehensive Digital Archive” by the end of 2024.
2021
・New publication: Historical Materials on Nō Theatre 7 近世諸藩能役者由緒書集成（下）
Collection of historical records of Edo period Nō actors who served the fifty-seven families of various lords throughout Japan. Edited by MIYAMOTO Keizō.
・Expansion of Digital Archive
Research into material for “The Komparu Family Digital Archive” and writing of bibliographic information was undertaken.
2020
・New publication: Historical Materials on Nō Theatre 6 近世諸藩能役者由緒書集成（中）
The plan was to publish the continuation of the upper volume published in 2018 in a single volume, but due to the progress of the research and the sheer volume of material, only the middle volume was published in 2020.
・Updated: Collection of Images of Source Materials
Newly added to the archive are 49 ancient documents.
・In collaboration with National Noh Theatre, a special exhibition “Kanjin Noh” was held, and the results of joint research and surveys were made public through explanations in the catalogue and other publications.
2019
・Updated: Collection of Images of Source Materials
Digital photography of valuable Kyōgen-related materials 名女川本狂言台本・伝書 and 名女川家番組留帳, which had long been unaccounted for and were rediscovered the year before last, was completed and made available in the digital archive.
・Edit Historical Materials on Nō Theatre 近世諸藩能役者由緒書集成（下）
The second volume of a comprehensive reprint of historical records of Nō performers held by libraries and archives across Japan has been edited. The volume of information was much larger than originally planned, with the second volume alone containing 840 pages, far more than the 460 pages of the first volume, and the manuscript was almost complete, but due to the temporary closure of libraries and archives due to the new coronavirus epidemic, the material could not be checked at the final editing stage and the publication of the second volume was postponed until the next year.
