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- noun A form of
traditional Japanese theatre , once performed alongsidenoh as acomic intermission .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tokyo also has a re-created Globe; they do visiting RSC productions, a Kabuki "" Hamlet '' and a kyogen "" Horazamurai '' -- "" The Merry Wives of Windsor '' to you.
Shakespeare 2008
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"People want to access what it means to be Japanese now," says Motoya Izumi, 27, a performer in the 600-year-old comic musical art known as kyogen.
Unlikely Stars 2007
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And kyogen, once studied as an ancient art, is gaining new and younger fans around the country.
Unlikely Stars 2007
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The play is performed by all schools of No. PERSONS AN ITINERANT PRIEST (waki): A VILLAGER (kyogen): MATSUKAZE (shite): MURASAME (tsure):
Matsukaze 1970
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The no was solemn and stately; the kyogen comic and sprightly.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Drama; yokyoku, mimetic dance; no; kyogen; time of Tsunayoshi; theatre in Yedo; illustrations
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The Shigeyama family-a theater troupe that performs kyogen, Japan's oldest form of spoken drama-performs for free tonight at 7 PM at the University of Chicago's International House (1414 E. 59th); RSVP Sam Worley on Mon, Mar 22, 2010
Chicago Reader 2010
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The Shigeyama family-a theater troupe that performs kyogen, Japan's oldest form of spoken drama-performs for free tonight at 7 PM at the University of Chicago's International House (1414 E. 59th); RSVP Sam Worley on Mon, Mar 22, 2010
Chicago Reader 2010
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The Shigeyama family-a theater troupe that performs kyogen, Japan's oldest form of spoken drama-performs for free tonight at 7 PM at the University of Chicago's International House (1414 E. 59th); RSVP Sam Worley on Mon, Mar 22, 2010
Chicago Reader 2010
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The Shigeyama family-a theater troupe that performs kyogen, Japan's oldest form of spoken drama-performs for free tonight at 7 PM at the University of Chicago's International House (1414 E. 59th); RSVP Sam Worley on Mon, Mar 22, 2010
Chicago Reader 2010
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