Busu = Poison sugar
1995. VHS (28 min.)
Call#: PL790 .B8724 1995b
Summary: Video of a short comic play from the Kyogen repertoire. Depicts the antics of the clever servants Taro Kaja and Jiro Kaja, who are entrusted with a container of poison while their master is away.
Nihon no dentō bunka. Nō = Traditional Japanese culture. Noh drama (日本の伝統文化. 能)
1999. DVD (ca. 20 min.)
Call#: DVD PN2924.5.N6 N46 1999
Summary: "Noh drama is one of Japan's great theatrical traditions. With its history of 600 years, noh is the world's oldest continuous tradition of poetic drama." -- NHK International's catalog.
Nihon-bi saihakken. Yume to utsutsu o samayoite : nō, onna-men = A modern eye for traditional beauty. Noh masks beauty transient, beauty eternal : noh the female mask (日本美再発見. 夢と現をさまよいて : 能・女面)
1995. DVD (ca. 30 min.)
Call#: DVD PN2924.5.N6 N43 1995
Summary: "Noh is a form of drama dating back to the 14th century in which the actors wear masks. Noh masks, which are highly stylized and never deviate from traditional forms, possess an uncanny power to communicate the whole range of human emotions. The same mask can convey both tenderness and cruelty, courage and cowardice, dream and reality. This programme seeks to reveal the little-known world of Noh in general and the art of mask-making in particular." -- NHK International's catalog.
Nō "Izutsu" = Noh Izutsu (能「井筒」)
Takao Toshioka
2000. VHS (40 min.)
Call#: PL792.S4 I924 2000
Summary: Based on the 17th episode of Ise monogatari, this is a noh performance of the scene where a traveling priest meets a woman beside a grave, who tells him it is the grave of Ariwara no Narihira whom she has throughout her life, and the priest sees in a dream the woman dance in Narihira's hat and robe.
Nō (能)
1999. VHS (45 min.)
Call#: PN2924.5.N6 K23 1999
Nō = Music of Noh drama
Eugene Enrico
1997. VHS (30 min.)
Call#: video ML340.5 .N63 1997
Summary: Artists from the Noh troupe led by Kinzo Komparu demonstrate the styles and forms of Noh music. The program explains the variety of musical traditions in Noh, the use of musical instruments, and the relationship between music, drama, and dance. The program also surveys the historic tradition of Noh and explains the connections to Buddhism and Shinto.
Nō, Kyogen kanshō nyūmon (能・狂言鑑賞入門)
1980-1989. 6 VHSs
Call#: PN2924.5.N6 N542 1980
Nomura Mansai waga ko o kitaeru kyōgen sandai no hatsubutai = Three generations, one stage : first steps to mastery (野村萬斎わが子を鍛える 狂言三代の初舞台)
2003. DVD (ca. 43 min.)
Call#: DVD PN2924.5.K9 N66 2003
Summary: "Nomura Mansai is a very popular and highly skilled kyogen master in the Izumi style. His eldest son Yuki (3) is about to give his first stage performance. In the Nomura family, the kyogen play Utsubo-zaru is traditionally performed at 3 years of age. From father to son, son to grandson, we examine three generations of the Nomura family as they pass down time-honoured techniques in a changing world." -- NHK International's catalog.
Nyūmon Kyogen no waza to kokoro (入門狂言の技と心)
1999. VHS (20 min.)
Call#: PN2924.5.N6 B53 1999 vol. 2
Summary: Introduction to Kyōgen.
Nyūmon Nō no ongaku (入門能の音楽)
2000. VHS (20 min.)
Call#: PN2924.5.N6 B53 1999 vol. 3
Summary: Introduction to No music.
Nyūmon Nō no waza to kokoro (入門能の技と心)
1999. VHS (20 min.)
Call#: PN2924.5.N6 B53 1999 vol. 1
Summary: Introduction to No plays.
Okina (翁)
2000. VHS (65 min.)
Call#: PN2924.5.N6 B53 1999 vol. 4
Summary: Performance of the Nō play "Okina". Recorded Jan. 16th, 2000 at the Umewaka Nōgakuin Kaikan.
On to eizō ni yoru Nihon koten geinō taikei (音と映像による日本古典芸能大系)
1992. 25 VHSs
Call#: PN2920 .O68 1992
Summary: Examples of classical Japanese entertainment forms with background history, general remarks, and commentary.
Sugiura Kanze Noh Theater Troupe
2000. VHS (118 min.)
Call#: PL765 .S84 2000
Summary: Takasago: A Noh dance with music depicting a long and happy life. Kaminari: A comic drama about a quack doctor who successfully treats the god of thunder. Aoi no Ue: A Noh performance that tells of a prince's wife, the Lady A-o-i, who falls ill because she is possessed by the spirit of her husband's former mistress. A shaman and a priest both attempt to exorcise the spirit.
This is kyogen
1996. VHS (21 min.)
Call#: PN2924.5.K9 T47 1996
Summary: Actors from the Ōkura school of kyogen comedy perform selected fragments and scenes from the 14th century kyogen repertoire. The rhythmic vocalization, stylized physical movement, and exquisite timing characteric of kyogen are evident in these vignettes depicting lazy servants, angry wives, foolish masters, and pretentious mountain priests.
This is noh
Takao Toshioka
[2000]. VHS (39 min.)
Call#: PN2924.5.N6 T45 2000
Summary: Explores the basic elements developed over 600 years in Japanese noh theater.
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