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Also known as nogaku, nohgaku

is one of the traditional styles of Japanese theater. It is composed of the lyric drama noh, and the comic theater kyōgen (狂言). Traditionally, both types of theatre are performed together, the kyōgen being interposed between the pieces of noh during a day of performances.

Key facts

Performing art.name
Nōgaku
Performing art.image
春日神社ー篠山ー翁奉納P1011774.jpg
Performing art.caption
Noh performance at Shinto shrine
Performing art.medium
Theater
Performing art.types
Noh and kyōgen
Performing art.culture
Japan
Intangible heritage.ICH
Nôgaku theatre
Intangible heritage.State Party
Japan
Intangible heritage.ID
00012
Intangible heritage.Region
APA
Intangible heritage.Year
2008
Intangible heritage.Session
3rd
Intangible heritage.List
Representative

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Country of origin
Japan
Image
Zo'onna Noh Mask, Edo period, 18th century, wood with polychromy - Tokyo National Museum - DSC06166.JPG
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Category:Nōgaku

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is one of the traditional styles of Japanese theater. It is composed of the lyric drama noh, and the comic theater kyōgen (狂言). Traditionally, both types of theatre are performed together, the kyōgen being interposed between the pieces of noh during a day of performances.

It has influenced the Bunraku, or Japanese puppet theatre as well as Kabuki.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nōgaku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.