“The Face of Drama: Contemporary Noh Masks by Hakuzan Kubo,” the new exhibit at the Morikami Museum, opens Tuesday and runs through Nov. 26. Forty masks of Japanese classical theater, or noh, make up ...

See Lark Mason III appraise Japanese Noh drama mask models, ca. 1920, in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 1. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines ...

In the ancient artform of Noh, masked figures clad in elaborate robes use songs and chants to weave tales of gods and ghosts, love and loss from Japanese legends. It emerged in the 14th century, ...

Kabuki, with its elaborate makeup and costumes, fast-paced action and lively atmosphere, usually comes to mind when people think of Japanese theater. But there's a more esoteric form of theater called ...

HOUSTON, October 3, 2014 — Asia Society Texas Center is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi, on view in the Texas Center’s Louisa ...

We learn about an exhibit featuring carved wooden masks from the Japanese tradition of Noh theater, where actors would wear these elegantly hand-crafted masks. The exhibit, Traditions Transfigured: ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Japanese Garden is featuring an exhibit that unmasks ancient Japanese theater. Mirrors of the Mind: The Noh Masks of Ohtsuki Kokun will be on display at the Japanese ...

The human face has inspired artists around the world for millennia, and the mask provides a dynamic form for exploring issues such as cultural identity, gender, performance, and appropriation. But ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Japan Society proudly announces a much-anticipated event in its current Performing ...

At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund ...

Masks were part of the Japanese theater tradition as far back as the early 7th century, starting with the now-defunct gigaku and introduced during the 20th year of Empress Suiko’s reign, and survived ...