#noh plays

[nobrashfestivity]

Ikko Tanaka. Kanze Noh Play. 1973

Silkscreen

#Ikko Tanaka #posters #silkscreen #noh plays #japanese art #design

[nicklloydnow]

"Two Modern Noh Plays" by Yukio Mishima presented by Midtwenties Theater Society & 2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival

“POET: Listen to me. . . . I am just what I seem, a threepenny poet, without even a woman who'll look at me. But there's something I respect-the world as reflected in the eyes of young people who love each other, a hundred times more beautiful than what they actually see—that I respect. Look, they're not the least aware we're talking about them. They've climbed up high as the stars. You can see the glint of starlight under their eyes, next to the cheeks. . . . And this bench, this bench is a kind of ladder mounting to heaven, the highest lookout tower in the world, a glorious observation point. When a man sits here with his sweetheart he can see the lights of the cities halfway across the globe. But if (climbs on the bench) I stand here all by myself, I can't see a thing. . . . Oh, I do see something—lots of benches, somebody waving a flashlight—must be a policeman. A bonfire. Beggars crouching around the fire. The headlights of a car. They've passed each other now and are heading toward the tennis courts. What was that? A car full of flowers. Performers returning from a concert? Or a funeral procession? (He gets down from the bench and sits.) That's all I can see.

OLD WOMAN: What rubbish. Why in the world do you respect such things? It's that same silly nature of yours which makes you write sentimental poems that nobody will buy.

POET: And that's exactly why I never invade this bench. As long as you and I are occupying it, the bench is just so many dreary slats of wood, but if they sit here it can become a memory. It can become softer than a sofa, and warm with the sparks thrown off by living people. . . . When you sit here it becomes cold as a grave, like a bench put together out of slabs of tombstones. I can't bear that.

OLD WOMAN: You're young and inexperienced, you still haven't the eyes to see things. You say the benches where they sit, those snotty-faced shop clerks with their whores, are alive? Don't be silly. They're petting on their graves. Look, how deathly pale their faces look in the greenish street light that comes through the leaves. Their eyes are shut, the men and women both. Don't they look like corpses? They're dying as they make love. (Sniffs around her.) There's a smell of flowers, all right. The flowers in the park are very fragrant at night, just like those inside a coffin. Those lovers are all buried in the smell of the flowers, like so many dead men. You and I are the only live ones.

POET: (Laughs.) What a joke! You think you're more alive than they are?

OLD WOMAN: Of course I do. I'm ninety-nine years old, and look how healthy I am.

POET: Ninety-nine?

OLD WOMAN: (turning her face into the light) Take a good look.”

“OLD WOMAN: I know what the face looks like of someone who's come back to life—I've seen it often enough. It wears an expression of horrible boredom, and that expression is what I like. . . . Long ago, when I was young, I never had the sensation of being alive unless my head was all awhirl. I only felt I was living when I forgot myself completely. Since then I have realized my mistake. When the world seems wonderful to live in, and the meanest little flower looks big as a dome, and flying doves sing as they go by with human voices . . . when, I mean, everyone in the whole world says "Good morning" joyously to everyone else, and things you've been searching for ten years turn up in the back of a cupboard, and every girl looks like an empress . . . when you feel as if roses are blooming on the dead rose trees, then—idiotic things like that happened to me once every ten days when I was young, but now when I think of it, I realize I was dying as it happened. . . . The worse the liquor, the quicker you get drunk. In the midst of my drunkenness, in the midst of those sentimental feelings and my tears, I was dying. . . . Since then, I've made it a rule not to drink. That's the secret of my long life.

РОЕТ: (teasing her) Oh! And tell me, old lady, what is your reason for living?

OLD WOMAN: My reason? Don't be ridiculous! Isn't the very fact of existing a reason in itself? I'm not a horse that runs because it wants a carrot. Horses, anyway, run because that's the way they're made.”

- Yukio Mishima, ‘Sotoba Komachi’ (1956)

#mishima #yukio mishima #sotoba komachi #noh plays #Midtwenties Theater Society #Vancouver Fringe Festival

[teamfreewill56-blog]

Wait a minute. The first fanbook said that Kyojuro liked watching Noh plays. Now the Mugen Train Drama CD says Ruka liked Noh Theatre too. Does this mean Kyojuro watches Noh plays to feel closer to his mother again?

I feel like it's probably a little bit of both. He watches them to feel closer to Ruka but that he also genuinely likes them and this is something else that he has in common with her/ is an interest that he shares with her. I do wonder if Ruka and Shinjuro ever took him to see them when he was younger, before Senjuro was born or if maybe when Ruka fell ill she would talk to him about the different plays she had seen.

#anon ask #noh plays #kyojuro rengoku #flame hashira #flame pillar #rengoku kyōjurō #senjuro rengoku #demon slayer #set your heart ablaze #demon slayer mugen train #rengoku shinjuro #rengoku kyojuro #ruka rengoku #kyojuro takes after his mama in a lot of ways #remembering his mother #interests

[sparklyeyedhimbo]

only friends the game

play as your favorite red flag and cause mayhem on purpose

if you wanna read whats written on the dialog wheel here you have it in all its glory

to explain this wheel to the non-gaymers on the right side you see the dialog option going from

good

funny

asshole

and on the left side you see the "special" dialog option i deepens how you answers questions overall (and no asking mew to be his boyfriends is not a good thing i just made it dark blue because it was in the colors of the logo..top is 100% a red play through

#only friends the series #only friends #ofts #oftsgifs #mygifs #this did not take me all day #nah noh #and don't ask me why i put the sing your best song dialog option as the TRUE love option #do you see that i played way to much dragon age AND mass effect?

[artsycooky13]

Art req: Steven and Connie, both wearing space suits, having a date on an alien planet

the word space suit has been ruined for me you see?

#“urm ackchually ish noh a aliun plahnet” #maybe they're playing games on their phone on a planet who knows- maybe it's gamer date #connie maheswaran #my art #connverse #request #they are def dying btw #onion is the imposter #steven universe

[pharawee]

Tan Kittinan as PRAI & Noh Phouluang as PLENG —เพลงพราย LOVE PUZZLE ✨ Coming Soon

#love puzzle #love puzzle the series #เพลงพราย love puzzle #noh phouluang #tan kittinan #lovepuzzleedit #thai bl #thai drama #bl drama #bl series #my edits. #noh my beloved #the shift in his acting when he's not playing someone as aggressive wow #i love noh so so much #and pleng too (from what i read in art adore en)

[murasaki-cha]

Ok but he's literally such a good actor because this mf legit scared me. The way he changed faces so fast from the cold deadpan expression to the creepy psychotic smile. I got goosebumps

#him and the person who played the killer #phenomenal #my demon netflix #my demon kdrama #my demon #kdrama #마이 데몬 #kim tae hoon #noh seok min

[greenrose-witchdance]

This time i get to remember the 21st night of september as the night i went to see joker out in turku

#how nice is that #i would pass out if they played september there but alas its noh gonna happen #joker out #september #earth wind and fire #21st night of september #my thoughts to the void

[demonslayedher]

Me: My Research, My Dear Research, I need you to tell me about Noh theater.

My Research: You know about Noh.

Me: No! I need to know more Noh. Give me all the Noh. Quickly.

My Research: None of your upcoming work projects have anything to do with Noh, though, and you really should be studying for those. You're about to be very, very busy. See, aren't these cool? I'm very proud of you keeping your mouth mostly shut about why you happen to know one of these topics absurdly well because of your silly blog.

Me: Yes, I know, not being able to mention that irony is killing me. But--

My Research: I hope this has taught you a lesson in producing content you can actually share in a professional sphere!

Me: No, I meant I can't blog about work stuff. But no, Noh!! Please!! At least give me a refresher!

My Research: Goodness, why? Are you going to watch a full performance at a Noh theater or something?

Me: Yes.

My Research: No...

Me: Yes.

My Research: It can't be. You failed to get tickets for that, like, seven times because it kept getting sold out. It can't be. No.

Me: Y E S.

My Research: It's the Kimetsu no Yaiba Noh production showing next week in Kyoto, isn't it?

Me:

#my unrelated exasperated research #my exasperated unrelated research #after missing the Tokyo and Osaka showings and not getting the first round of Kyoto tickets I thought it would always escape me #but then tickets went on a first-come-first-serve sale instead of a lottery #but all that was left was the Wednesday showing which would would had been easy to get time for if I still worked in Kyoto #but I didn't even know if I would get to see this showing when I bought the expensive ticket #but it looks like it's gonna work out (albeit with more effort than I hoped) #I AM FINALLY SEE IT #what does one wear to go watch KnY Noh? a kimono? closet play? #the Zenko kimono??? #no

[xembarch]

Family Game Night!

I’ve been working on this piece on and off for a couple months now, and it’s at a point where I’m comfortable to post. This is my first time drawing half these characters, and I can’t draw a guitar, but they get the point across

#Marvel comics #marvel au #Parker Robbins #Luna Maximoff #Teddy Altman #Billy Kaplan #Tommy Shepard #Phyla-vell #Genis-vell #Noh-Varr #Viv Vision #Half of them are banned from playing most games #Noh-Varr is related to the Vells in this au #And Parker is related to the maximoffs so he also gets invited #Full Art #{Year} 2023

[hadesdancehall]

happy wip monday bc i can't wait for wednesday

my mom brought miss rona home from a coworker after i posted the first ch of @lemon-wedges phantom au which brought everything to a halt where instead i was watching yt clips of cdrama palace intrigue. did numerous mini drafts on paper of something i thought i'd use but then decided to use later on (how did this grow from two to four planned chapters aaaaa) so now we're going in a completely new direction

also after a bit of back and forth with myself i made the Very Important Decision of having barok at a pub

#my wips #somehow i didn't test positive but still got coughs that never really went away bc weather changed so much that my lungs couldn't keep up #former asthmatic problems strike once again thanks to east coast weather #i've also been trying to trick my brain into saying fuck it let's just write self indulgent shit head empty #while every instinct wants polish and layers in every sentence #and i mean there's gonna be layers bc man did i spend a lot of the downtime researching noh plays #but maybe not everything has to be full dgs levels of crafting mysteries #i've also slowly been getting through the dunmeshi manga which is fun i'm in the ch 70s now #baroryuu

[nobrashfestivity]

Kitazawa Hideta Masks for Noh plays, 2015

© Kitazawa Hideta

Museum New South Wales

#Kitazawa Hideta #masks #demons #set #noh plays

[snowshinobi]

dramatic cape flip ... Kyojuro your theater kid vibes are showing

#seriously kyo you don't wanna rethink the demon slayer thing. you sure you don't wanna star in some of those noh plays you love so much? #he's so theatrical and i love that for him #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #rengoku kyojuro #rengoku #this is from one of the clips in the demon slayer promotion wheel 2021 #also this happened in the mugen train mini arc i assume. can't remember rn #snowswords #snowfire

[avocodas]

In his early 20s, Rengoku Tojuro stop midway his kendo training and stares blankly to the fireworks that accompany August’s humidity.

Then he hurry to his backpack, and picks up a notebook and a pen, then eagerly started writing and writing and writing till his father slapped him out of his train of thoughts and scolded him to not train to death and sleep for good!

Tojuro enthusiastically apologizes and hurries up to follow his father’s demands!

His father pick up the notebook wondering what his son was studying all night and find the first page wet and the bleed ink saying

Melting Ice

A Story of Broken Promises

from a Falling Man

Did his son hit his head while training?

#yep #hc the Kyojuro learned about his killer’s past #he pity him and Tojuro ( his reincarnation as supposed) wirte about Akaza’s story to be a Noh play later #then he became a famous play writer because of this play #avo tries thinking #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #kny headcanon #rengoku Tojuro #rengoku Kyojuro #rengoku #Akaza #kny modern au #kny

[june-again]

im aesthetically obsessed with 90% of the characters in this game but i also hate them. why are uthe way your are

#june shines #juneshin impact #cough scara #NOH HIS VOICELINES JUST MAKE ME SOB THEYRE SO BAD #THEYRE SO BAD #anyways im gonna go play the sumeru archon quest on eu server :) bc tighnari #hes a bitch but hes beloved #hes #hesss #h es #I HAVE A FUCKIGN TEST TOMROWOHRWOA LOWLAWIOWLAJOIWLMALKMA #bye

[star--nymph]

I'm so glad I'm at the point in my life where I just need to gasp when I see a woman and my friends on the other end of a call responses with a sigh and 'yes, we know, Kat'.

#I was watching Jed play Stanley Parable and the narrator switched to a British lady and I was like OH?? nOH WOMAN NOW??? WOMAN???? #I would like to point out every one of my friends are gay #I'm just OBNIXOUS ABOUT WOMEN #also I can't believe I gotta say this but terfs dni