Kanze
Kanze（1893）The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan, Batsford, London [EN]
- 18The son of Se-ami, Oto-ami, founded the now-existing house of Kanzi, which is in fact the true and original family of No dancers. Four other ancient houses are still flourishing, but they date only from the later years of the sixteenth century.
- 54When I say that it has no need to wait on its audience, I have in my mind the fact that it was that very audience which originated and perfected it as we see it to-day on the stage of Kanze, or Hosho, or Umewaka, or Yamashina, or Kudan, of Tokyo.
- 397In return for this the holy man persuades the Lord of Kamakura to restore to him his forfeited lands. There were at that time three other companies of no-yakusha; Kanze-daiyu, Kosho-daiyu and Kompara-daiyu.
- 21There are five schools of shite actors as represented by names of Kanze, Konparu, Hoshō, Kongō and Kita.
- 9There are to-day six Noh schools Kanze, Hosho, Kongo, Komparu, Kita and Umewaka.
- 8The Noh art is being perpetuated today,as it has been since feudal times, by five official “schools” known as Kanze, Hosho, Komparu, Kongo and Kita, and though they are all divided on some of the technical details, in their traditional reverence for Zen canons of taste they are united.
- 24Ainsi l’école Kanzei est maniérée, précieuse, féminine, tandis que l’école Hôshô est rude, sombre, farouche.
- 24Une fraction s’est séparée récemment de Kanzei pour former une nouvelle- chapelle nommée Umewaka.
- 24Le répertoire Kanzei est dû à un savant compilateur et remanieur des premiers drames lyriques nés dans la paix des cloîtres.
- 25Voici « une journée » à la sallc de l’école Kanzei de Tôkyô.
- 586Il testo Tame-yo del Kanze-ryû del 1686 ha alcune varianti, di cui ecco le principali.
- 18The son of Se-ami, Oto-ami, founded the now-existing house of Kanzi, which is in fact the true and original family of No dancers.
- viKuwanze Eiu Yeukiyoku Bon (” Book of Lyric Dramas According to the Kuwanze Style “)
- 436Les plus célèbres sont Emmani, au temple de Kasuga et Yasaki (aujourd’hui Kwanzé) au temple de Shinto.
- 437Mais celui qu’on peut véritablement appeler le père du théâtre Nô, est Yusaki Kiyotougu, fondateur de la dynastie principale des auteurs sacrés et ancêtre direct du célèbre Kwanzé Kiyokado.
- 437Un indigène de la province d’Iga, employé à la Cour du Shogun Athikaga, eut pour fils Motoshigé qui, ayant aperçu en songe la déesse Kwanzeon, déesse de la pitié, changea son prénom de Yusaki en celui de Kwanzé.
- 251The descendants of these celebrated No dancers and writers called themselves “ Kwanze ” from generation to generation, a name formed by combining the two first syllables of Kwanami and Seami.
- 96Certaines familles ont fourni plusieurs générations succeseivcs de comédiens de kiyôghèn un peut citer les Ohkoura, les Chо̄myо̄, les Saghi, les ldzoumi, qui ne remontent cependant pas aussi haut dans l’histoire que les Kwanzé, les Komparou, les Hо̄shо̄ et les Kongо̄, dont les descendants jouent encore les nô.
- 122Il fut composé par le second des Kwanze, Seami Motokiyo 世阿弥元清 (1375-1435); celui-ci le cite dans un de ses opuscules écrits vers I435.
- 123-124Le texte que nous donnons en transcription et que nous traduisons est celui de l’école Kwanze; nous indiquons en note les variantes, généralement de peu d’importance, que présentent ceux des autres écoles.
- 136He was grandson to Kwanami Kiyotsugu, the founder of the Kwanze school.
- 3The late Dr. Tōgo Yoshida, a well-known historian in Japan described the Nō play somewhat as follows: “About five hundred years ago, with Seami, the founder of the Kwanze school of the Nō play as the central figure, other Nō actors and scholars working in co-operation collected the very cream of our literature and fine arts and from them completed the Nō music and dance.
- 7In No schools of Kon-paru, Kongo and Kita, the roles of Senzai are played by Kyogen who appear, with the mask box while in the schools of Kwanze and Hosho, the parts of Senzai, aro played by Shite-zure, in which case, there is a separate mask-box carrier.
- 21There are 5 schools if shite actors as represented by names of Kwanze, Konparu, Hoshо̄, Kongо̄ and Kita.
- 22In playing Kotsuzumi, there were four schools of Ōkura, Kō, Kōsei and Kwanze, but Kwanze has now gone out of existence leaving the other three schools while the Ōtsuzumi playing had also various schools of Kon-paru, Itoku, Ishii, Ōkura, Takayasu and Kadono, but the latter two schools alone are extant.
- 22The drum playing has two schools of Kon-paru and Kwanze which are in fashion even at the present time.
- 22The oldest of the Noh schools is called Konparu out of which arose two schools of Kongo and Kita which are known under the general name of Shimogakari, while the school of Hosho was originated from the Kwanze school, both of which are included under the name of Kamigakari.
- 23The founder of the Konparu school was Hada-no-Kawakatsu who lived twelve hundred years ago and Kwan-ami, the founder of the Kwanze school lived six hundred years ago.
- 23The Nō play that is in existence at present was brought to perfection by Seami Motokiyo the second head of the Kwanze family.
- 87The Emani, Yusaki, Toyama, and Sakado families, now known as Konperu, Kwanze, Hosho, and Kongo, together with Kita-an outgrowth of Kongo-form in reality two schools, the Shimogakari and the Kamigakari, according to their method of acting.
- 87Of these families, the Kwanze and the Kongo are the most prominent, and representative of the Kamigakari and the Shimogakari schools respectively.
- 87Kwanami Kiyotsugu and his son, Seami, were members of the Kwanze family, and by them Sarugaku was brought to its perfection.
- 16In Nara at the Kasuga shrine four groups arose forming the present schools of Komparu, Kwanze, Hosho, and Kongo.
- 22Each school of Nо̄ (Kwanze, Kongo, Komparu, Hо̄shо̄, and Kita) has its own texts which contain some differences in reading.
- 612L’utaibon del Kwanze-ryu 観世流 dice che si tratta di un darani 呪 (陀羅尼) (formola magica buddista) e che perciò le parole vanno lasciate come sono; il tradurle sarebbe un sacrilegio.
- x-xiThe performance of these dramas was entirely restricted to the Five Families of Komparu, Kwanzei, Hosho, Kongo and Kita, of which Komparu claims the greater antiquity.
- xiThe first Kwanzei also descends from a Shonagon or Court Councillor Tomonobu, himself fifth in line from the Emperor Kwammu, and Tomonobu is the ancestor of Kwan-ami Kiyotsugu.
- xiThis house of Kwanzei was in the early seventeenth century made chief of the Five Families and official No teacher to the Shogun by the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi, a great enthusiast for this and other arts.
- xvIt was held eight times during this era, six times for the Kwanzei house and twice for the Hosho.
- xxivI owe very much also to Professor Hirotaro Hattori of the Imperial University of Tokyo and the Gakushuin, for his great kindness in so often lending me his box at the Kwanzei No theatre, whereby my knowledge and appreciation were very much increased.