Seminar Report
The 2024 school year
| March 24, 2025 | Research Meeting: Law and litigation in the Nō of the Taiheiki. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies. |
| March 16, 2025 | Symposium: The Taiheiki and Nō. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies 23th Conference. |
| March 5, 2025 | Nōgaku seminar: Nō music before the early modern period. |
| March 2, 2025 | Nōgaku seminar: Adaptation to Manga and Nō Kyōgen. |
| January 31, 2025 | Symposium: Reading ‘Nō Juban’ with Seiko Ito. |
| October 17, 2024 | Research Meeting: Changes in post-modern Nō painting as seen in Tsukioka Kōgyo and Matsuno Sōfū. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies. |
| June 28, 2024 | Research Meeting: The value of amateur Nō training. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies. |
The 2023 school year
| March 17, 2024 | Symposium: Kyōgen – research and practice. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies 22th Conference. |
| March 3, 2024 | Nōgaku seminar “Animation and Nōgaku”. |
| February 26, 2024 | Research Meeting: Restoration of the Kita family’s main mask. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies. |
| January 29, 2024 | Research Meeting: Why do Nō actors use masks? Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies. |
The 2022 school year
| March 25, 2023 | Symposium: The history and transformation of musical instruments. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies 21th Conference. |
| February 23, 2023 | Research Meeting: Nōgaku in school education. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies. |
| September 19, 2022 | Symposium “Crisis and Nōgaku – how we have accepted and overcome the crisis”. |
| September 16, 2022 | Workshop ‘Becoming familiar with Nō’. |
| September 1, 2022 | Special exhibition at the HOSEI Museum in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University. |
| August 26, 2022 | Research meetings with young researchers |
The 2021 school year
| March 13, 2022 | Symposium: Nō and Chant Culture. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies 20th Conference. |
| February 28, 2022 | Research Meeting: ‘Netori‘ of flutes from the late Muromachi to early Edo period. |
| April 12, 2021 | Research Meeting: Zeami’s changing image of ‘flowers’. |
The 2020 school year
| March 13, 2021 | Symposium: Soga brothers’ tradition and Nō. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies 19th Conference. |
| February 21, 2021 | Research Meeting: Chant books in early modern publishing culture. |
The 2019 school year
| December 6, 2019 | Sixth Open Research Society: Nō and Buddhism |
| October 19, 2019 | Symposium: Archives of Iemoto. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies 18th Conference. |
| August 2, 2019 | Research Meeting: On the body in Japanese performing arts |
| July 12, 2019 | Fifth Open Research Society: Nō and Buddhism |
| June 21, 2019 | Research Meeting: Edo period publication of Koutaibon. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies |
| April 25, 2019 | Research Meeting: On the eve of the ‘Hashi no kai’──Nō and contemporary art and thought. Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies. |
| April 19, 2019 | Public access to Former Date Family Collection Archive |
| March 29, 2019 | Results briefing |
The 2018 school year
| December 28, 2018 |
Research Meeting: A Re-examination of Phantom Nō from the Perspective of the Production of Ai-kyōgen Scripts and the Aikyōgen Narratives |
| November 24, 2018 |
Philosophy, Medicine, Nō: Learn and Play to Live Well |
| October 21, 2018 |
Research Workshop “The Potential for Research on Nō Materials” |
The 2017 school year
| March 20, 2018 |
Research Meeting: Compilation of a Database of Terms related to Buddhism in Nō Plays and Research into the Buddhist Background of Nō |
| March 12, 2018 |
20th Nō Theatre Seminar Symposium: “How Are Artistic Techniques Trasmitted, from Mind to Mind and Body to body” |
| February 28, 2018 |
Nō Workshop |
| February 20, 2018-March 24, 2018 |
Exhibition” The World of Nō Material for Performance” |
| December 20, 2017 |
Research Meeting Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies |
| December 8, 2017 |
Research Meeting: Compilation of a Database of Terms related to Buddhism in Nō Plays and Research into the Buddhist Background of Nō |
| December 1, 2017 |
Research Meeting: Compilation of a Database of Terms related to Buddhism in Nō Plays and Research into the Buddhist Background of Nō |
| October 22, 2017 | Disseminating information about Nō studies via the Web, present and future: From digital resource archives to new approaches to content creation |
| October 18, 2017 | Daiwa Scholars 2017 Lecture |
| October 16, 2017 | Research Meeting Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies |
| October 7, 2017 | Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hōsei University Open Seminar / Hosei University Graduate School International Japanese Studies Institute: Open Seminar and Joint Practice “Laughter of Kyōgen: The Times of Long Ago and Now” |
| September 29, 2017 | Research Meeting Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies |
The 2016 school year
| March 31, 2017 |
Nō Research Studies6 Modern Japan and Nō, Nō Research Studies7 The World of Komparu Family documents, Journal 6th Issue were published |
| October 16, 2016 | Manuals of Nō as Sources of Japanese Linguistic Studies |
| October 8, 2016 | Nō Theatre Seminar “The Interdisciplinary Research on Nō” |
| September 30, 2016 | Research Meeting Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies |
| September 11, 2016 | Research Meeting “Work Study on Nō Plays ” |
| July 27, 2016 | “Laughter has no Borders” SHIGEYAMA Family and Nagomi-Kyōgenkai Czech Kyōgen Performance in TOKYO |
| July 28-30, 2016 | International Editorial Conference for the Publishing of the English-version Nōgaku Zensho (Nō Encyclopedia) |
| July 1, 2016 | Research Meeting Cosponsored by the Association for Noh and Kyogen Studies |
The 2015 school year
| March 3, 30 |
Historical Materials on Nō Theatre 4 Ohayashi-Nikki was pubulished |
| March 22, 2016 | Journal, 5th Issue was publish |
| March 6, 2016 | Symposium “Stories of the Nō Masks, Costumes, and Musical Instruments in the Possession of Daimyo (Feudal Lords) Families in the Early Modern Period” |
| February 27, 2016 | Research Meeting “The World of the Kōetsu Nō Libretti: a Flowering of Spirit in the Early Seventeenth Century” |
| February 25, 2016 | The Reenactment of Kishuh-han’s Kishu-jishi Performance Recording |
| February 17- March 31, 2016 | Exhibition “The World of the Kōetsu Nō Libretti: a Flowering of Spirit in the Early Seventeenth Century” |
| November 30, 2015 | Nō Research Studies 5 The Present and Future of Nō Theatre |
| October 24-25, 2015 | 2015 Japanese Society for Theatre Research, Annual Conference in Autumn, the Modern Performance of Classical Drama |
| September 13, 2015 | Symposium “The Passing on of Waza(Artistic Techniques and Skills) in History and in the Present ― Gesture, Notation, Community” |
| July 23, 2015 |
Special Lecture by Professor François Lachaud, “World theater: A Study of Jesuit and Japanese Theater” |
| July 23-24, 2015 | International Workshop for editing the English-Language Nō Encyclopedia |
The 2014 school year
| Feb 27, 2015 |
An old drum body in performance: The timbre of the drum ‘J.zu-heta-nashi,’ transmitted by the Yamazaki family |
| Nov 24, 2014 | Reconstruction based on the early Edo-period Akita J.nosuke katatsuke: reports and discussion |
| Oct 19, 26, | Nō Theatre Seminar: “The Present and Future of Nō Theatre” |
| Sep 15, 2014 | Symposium: “The World of Komparu Family Historical Documents: What Records Tell Us About the Komparu Family’s Development” |
| May 8, 2014 | Special lecture by Dr. Sirimonporn Suriyawongpaisal, “The representation of the parent-child relationship in Nō: focusing on the quotation of proverbs” |
The 2013 school year
| Mar 31, 2014 |
Japanese edition of Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh: Reading with and beyond Aristotle Written by Mae Smethurst; translated by Watanabe Kōji and Kiso Akiko ZEAMI: SIX REVIVED BANGAI PLAYS Translated and Introduced by Royall Tyler Journal, First Issue: Reports on the Center for International and Interdisciplinary Research on Nō Theatre |
| Dec 19, 2013 | Special Lecture By Mae Smethurst, “A Case in Which Noh and Greek Tragedy Can Inform Each Other” |
| Nov 20-22, 2013 | Nō workshop and symposium held at Royal Holloway, University of London, and at the University of Oxford |
| Oct 21-Nov 25, 2013 | The 17th Nō Theater Seminar, “Modern Japan and Nō” |
| Oct 7, 2013 | Symposium, “The 130th anniversary of Nogami Toyoichirō’s birth: A review of his Nō research” |
