These digital archives contain important historical sources of noh, movies of noh performances from the 1930s, and interdisciplinary studies of noh.
Digital Archives of Historical Sources
Digital Archives of documents transmitted in the Komparu Family
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An archive of documents transmitted in the Komparu Family and now stored in the Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University. These include documents donated by the Hōzanji Temple in Nara Prefecture to Hannya-kutsu Bunko and a collection of documents donated by the Komparu family. |
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Collection of Images of Source Materials
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An archive of noh libretti, annotated noh editions, transmission books, noh manuals, historical documents, and kyōgen texts in the collection of the Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University. The materials made public in this archive include Important Cultural Properties and other historically valuable documents and visual materials. |
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Archive of film recordings of noh performances from the 1930s.
“Fragments of noh drama, traces of the masters” (Kōzan Bunko Collection)
A total of 79 recordings of scenes from noh performances made on 16 mm film by EJIMA Ihei around the years 1932–1934. |
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“Performances by the Hōshō School in Dalian” (Kōzan Bunko Collection)
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16 mm recordings of performances by HŌSHŌ Shigefusa and other actors of the Hōshō school on a tour of Seoul, Changchun, Shenyang, Dalian, Qingdao, and Shanghai in August, 1935. |
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Archive of Interdisciplinary Studies of Noh
Dance Expression East and West
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A demonstration comparing noh 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 noh play Yamamba (Mountain Crone), expressing the dancer’s reactions to the four seasons. |
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3D Animation of Noh Movement
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This archive presents the findings of a joint research project on noh performance by the Noh Theatre Research Institute and the Department of Engineering and Design, Hosei University. Noh 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 noh 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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Analysis of Noh dance movements
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Research based on motion capture data of noh movement units conducted by Dr. CAI Dongsheng (Associate professor, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba). The data was filmed by the Center for International and Interdisciplinary Research, the Noh Theatre Research Institute. |
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