Atsumori: The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo

By Zeami Motokiyo and Massimo Cimarelli

The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrior of the Taira Clan Atsumori. The story of redention of the warrior Kumagai Jiro Naozane that killed the young Atsumori. One of the most popular and touching Zeami's Noh drama inspired by "The Tales of Heike".

Contents:
Preface by Massimo Cimarelli
Atsumori by Zeami Motokiyo
Pearson
Part I
Interlude
Part II
Glossary

• Language: English
• Publisher: Volume Edizioni
• Release date: Nov 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9788897747109

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PREFACE

by Massimo Cimarelli

During 1363 in Nagoya, Kan'ami Kiyotsugu saw the birth of his son, Zeami Motokiyo. Both of them will create the Noh theatre, Kan’ami as the founder while Zeami organized the performance and the form of the dramas, the acting company originated by them will call Kan’ze from the contraction of their names (KAN’ami ZEami) and Zeami was knew with the name of Kan’ze.

Introduced to theater by his father, since his childhood Motokiyo Zeami was a great actor and became the protege of the Shogun Ashigaka Yoshimitsu (1358-1408). To organize the Noh Zeami wrote some treatises, which had to keep secrets outside the company, and dramas, largely inspired by parts of Heike Monogatari ( The Tale of Heike ), the epic novel about the rise of the clan Taira, also called Heike, and their  fight with the clan Minamoto, also called Genji. Noh performances  early became love by the Samurai for the drama’s themes and the neatness of style which reflected the Samurai’s religion way of the Zen Buddhism. In the Fushikaden ( The trasmission of the Flower and the Style ) Zeami proposes two origins of Noh, one from Shintoism and the other from Buddhism but the two aren’t in contradiction and reflected the japanese sincretism of the two religions. Furthermore, in the beginning of the same treatis, the author said