No/Kyogen Masks and Performance

Including:

No and Kyogen: An Introduction and
An Interview with Udaka Michishige
By Rebecca Teele

No Masks
By Donald Richie

Behind the Mask of No
By Mark Nearman

Life with the No Mask
By Kanze Hisao

Recollections and Thoughts on No
By Kongo Iwao

Okina: An Interview with Takabayashi Koji and
No Costume as Interpretation
By Monica Bethe

Dojoji: Preparations for a Second Performance
By Tsumura Reijiro

No Masks: Their History and Development
By Nakamura Yasuo

The Expression of Ko-omote
By Kitazawa Ichinen

A Life Giving Art: Traditional Art of No Mask Carving
By Jeanne Chizuko Nishimura

The Kyogen Actor and His Relationship with the Mask
By Shigeyama Sengoro

Mask Making
By Normura Manzo

Some Thoughts on Kyogen Masks
By Nomura Mansaku

Kyogen Masks
By Iwasaki Kyoun

The Face and the Mask
By Don Kenny

Masks in Fusion Theatre
By Yuriko Doi

At the Hawk's Well: An Experiment in Japan with No Techniques in English
By Craig Turner

Subjects include the history of the No mask, carving the No mask, acting with the No mask, Kyogen mask carving, acting and history, masks in fusion theatre, and traditional Japanese masks in contemporary actor training. 80 illustrations.

Ogamo Rebecca Teele, Kongoh Noh Licensed Instructor, born in Michigan, USA, June 3, 1949, majored in drama at Bennington College, Vermont. She started training in Noh of the Kongo School and Noh mask carving with Master Actor Udaka Michishige in 1972. In 1980 she was certified as a Licensed Instructor of the Kongo School of Noh and in 1996 she became the first foreigner to become a member of the Noh Association where she is registered as Ogamo Rebecca. She is the Associate Director of the International Noh Institute and is involved in teaching utai (Noh chant), shimai (Noh dance), and mask carving and lecturing on Noh. Actively engaged in increasing interest in and deepening a true understanding of Noh abroad, she has presented workshops and demonstrations, as well as giving lecutres and taking part in conferences in the USA, Brazil, New Zealand, and Poland. Among her published works is Ono-No-Komachi, with her father and brother, and Women in Noh Today. Following her first Noh performance in 1976 of Hagoromo, she has performed Tomoe,Hashitomi, Makigami, Kazuraki: Kagura-shiki and the Aoi-no-une tusere role in Kiyotsune. In 2003, she was awarded the Kyoto Prefecture Akebono Prize.