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“Nō and Kyōgen Studies in an International Context and Their Future Directions”: Symposium Commemorating the Publication of A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre
To commemorate the publication of A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre (Brill, December 2024), we held a symposium on October 11th and 12th, 2025, at the Hosei University Ichigaya campus. 【English excerpts】 Video 1：A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre Video 2：A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre 2 Video 3：A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre 3 Video 4：A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre 4 Video 5：A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre 5 Video 6：YouTube Short ※Click each link to watch on YouTube.
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【Recordings of the Symposium】
Video ①：Introduction: looking back at the international joint research project
Video ②：The strengths of A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre
Video ③：The history of nō and material culture of nō and kyōgen
Video ④：Nō in the age of exploration
Video ⑤：The future of nō mask studies
Video ⑥：The book’s influence beyond Japan on the studies of nō treatises and criticism
Video ⑦：Konparu Zenchiku and his treatises
Video ⑧：Plays as literature: patterns and diversity
Video ⑨：Roundtable: the future directions of nō and kyōgen studies
Video ⑩：Nō that transcends borders: before WW2
Video ⑪：Nō that transcends borders: after WW2
Video ⑫：Roundtable: performance, techniques, training
Video ⑬：Online resources: list of the plays, excerpts, and collaboration with web references
Video ⑭：Digital archives by the Nō Theatre Research Institute
Video ⑮：Acting and anime: on kata, codified expression, and character creation
Video ⑯：Why we need A Chinese Companion to Nō and Kyōgen
Video ⑰：Discussion

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Nōgaku Seminar “Nō Music before the Early Modern Period”
Video recordings of Nōgaku Seminar held on March 5, 2025, at the Hosei University Ichigaya campus. The videos include demonstrations by professional nō performers. Video ①：Purpose of this seminar Video ②：Analyzing the notations for small hand drum (kotsuzumi) from a Sengoku-period treatise Video ③：Reproducing the ashirai chants from the Tsu domain Issō Family treatise collection 動画④：Demonstration of the Shishi inspired by the Tsu domain Issō Family treatise collection ※Click each link to watch on YouTube.
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Dance Expression East and West
A demonstration comparing nō and contemporary dance. Recording made on Nov. 21, 2013, at a workshop held at the University of Oxford. Two brief performances of the concluding dance of the nō play Yamamba (Mountain Crone), expressing the dancer’s reactions to the four seasons.
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3D Animation of Nō Movement
This archive presents the findings of a joint research project on nō performance by the Noh Theatre Research Institute and the Department of Engineering and Design, Hosei University. Nō dances are composed of temporal sequences of movement units described in documents called kata-tsuke. This research presents an approach using motion capture to synthesize nō dances as 3-D animations aligned in a time sequence. (This requires the 3Unity3D animation viewer for dance and movement elements.)
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