Mime
Bucolic Mime（1901）Japan, Its History, Arts, and Literature (Vol. III), J. B. Millet, Boston and Tokyo [EN]
- 251Note 4. -— The full names of the bucolic mime and the monkey mime were respectively Den-gaku-no-No and Sarugaku-no-No, or the accomplishment of Den-gaku and of Sarugaku; and since every feature distinctive of the original Den-gaku and Saru-gaku disappeared in the new development of the fourteenth century, it was natural that the names also should be abandoned.
- 16Both the ” monkey mime ” and the bucolic mime had been transformed from frivolous to religious exercises, and each in turn became the favourite measure of Court and temple, whereby in witnessing a dance the people were taught the instability of life, the vanity of all things human, and those doctrines which the Buddhist priests strove to inculcate.