Umewaka Minoru
Umewaka Minoru(1917)‘Noh,’ or Accomplishment, a Study of the Classical Stage of Japan, Macmillan, London [EN]
- 6“We work in pure spirit,” said Umewaka Minoru, through whose efforts the noh survived the revolution of 1868, and the fall of the Tokugawa.
- 401We were presented, and Mr. Umewaka was very hospitable and seemed pleased that a foreigner should wish to take lessons in singing.
- 401Mr. Umewaka brought me a singing-book and read slowly the words I was to learn, and I wrote them down as well as I could.
- 408For that reason I studied Utai, a school of Japanese music, taking my lessons of the famous teacher Umewaka.
- 8This was mainly due to Prince Tomomi Iwakura who patronized it, and to three great Noh actors of the period, Hōsyō Kurō, Umewaka-Minori and Sakurama-Sazin.