Umewaka
Umewaka(1901)Japanese Plays and Playfellows, Heinemann, London [EN]
- 44The writer was particularly fortunate in gaining admission to a series of No produced by the Umewaka company or society, which has this advantage over the other five organisations, diverging on points of textual accuracy and stage ritual, that it traces unbroken descent through its chief from the Kanze school of music appertaining to the Yusaki family of Nara.
- 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.
- 9There are to-day six Noh schools Kanze, Hosho, Kongo, Komparu, Kita and Umewaka.