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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Japanese Noh Theatre is a quiet, beautiful work of art in masks, kimono and tabi socks. Traditional Noh is an all male production telling folk-tales that are well known in Japan. The productions are ...

Noh masks? No way. Not interested even a little bit. Or so I thought, which is why I put off for weeks going to see “Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi” at Asia Society Texas ...

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 ...

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 ...