#noh theatre

[garethschweitzer]

[stardust-swan]

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[forgottenbones]

Processo di realizzazione di maschere giapponesi. Artigiani che realizzano maschere da 40 anni.

[selenitebabysbreath]

Noh mask, unknown artist (n.d.). Photograph by "Wmpearl" on Wikipedia (2009)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HIDEO KOJIMA ON "ONIBABA": "I WATCHED THIS AT NIGHT AS A KID AND IT SHOCKED ME."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on 1968 Czech movie poster for Japanese director Kaneto Shindo's acclaimed 1964 folktale-inspired horror film "Onibaba." Artwork by Hermina Melicharova.

EXTRA INFO: A shot of Mexican film director/writer/producer Guillermo Del Toro & video game designer/auteur Hideo Kojima at the D.I.C.E. Summit 2016 & 19th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, Las Vegas, NV, and concept art for the kaiju nicknamed "Onibaba" for 2013's "Pacific Rim," artwork by Kevin Thompson.

"Again, I watched this at night as a kid and it shocked me," he said, before he recalled discussing Kaneto Shindo's folk-horror set in medieval Japan with Guillermo Del Toro when they met for the first time. He added, "He loves this film as well. There's a monster called Onibaba in "Pacific Rim.""

-- IGN, "Notorious Film Nerd Hideo Kojima Reveals His Criterion Collection Picks," published September 20, 2023

Sources: http://blog.keiththompsonart.com/2013/07/kaiju-onibaba.html, IGN, Washington Times, Pinterest, various, etc...

[talesfromsiliconvalley]

Lacrimae Rerum

"[Hillel] saw a skull floating on the surface of the water. He said to it: Because you drowned others, they drowned you. And in the end, those that drowned you will be drowned" —Pirkei Avot (Seminal Ethics) 2, 6.

On Saturday night, Sam and Megan go to Theatre of Yugen in the Mission District. The performance includes a reading of a new play, in English, written according to the canons of traditional Noh theatre. The author explains that one common plot of a Noh play is that the protagonist goes to the site of a famous battle and meets someone who knows a suspicious amount about that long-ago event. The stranger turns out to be a ghost, the spirit of one of the casualties, and the human characters listen to his narrative of the battle. The reading begins, and the actors intone the words in the characteristic cadence: "A mo-THER, a daugh-TER, no LONG-ger a WIFE". Sam and Megan leave the theatre as the sun goes down, and Megan takes hold of Sam's hand. Sam shakes his head.

The following day, Sunday, the two of them go to an open house in the Western Addition. (Every San Francisco story, sooner or later, touches on real estate! Dear reader, you had to know this was coming.) They go up the stairs of the pastel-painted Victorian, look through the bedrooms and out the high windows, and as they go out, a man in a worn, ragged t-shirt waves at them.

He doesn't ask for change, but he does ask whether they're looking for real estate in the neighborhood. And he says that there's history here, a long history. He himself remembers when the People's Temple had a base here, led by Jim Jones himself. The man joined it. For Sam and Megan's benefit, he puts into words the indescribable:

"Can you imagine what it was like? Can you imagine what the world outside was like? The People's Temple had idealism by the bucketful. Everyone knew that it was a cult! Everyone could see the look in the eyes of the leaders! But look left, and see a black face. Look right, and see a white face. The world outside divided us, black over here and white over there. And a forest of nuclear missiles pointing in all directions over our heads. Outside, nothing but division, and nothing but death. Inside was different.

My first job was to run to a grocery store and get a case of sodas. And when I ran around the corner, I saw a man with a button-down shirt and some kind of stain on his collar. He waved me over, and he said:

"I remember when this store was owned by a couple, a husband and wife. The wife came from Japan, the husband was born in this country. I came to this store when I was young, and bought candy when I could. The husband told me once that when he first set up shop, he saw a young boy in rags looking at him strangely from the corner, as though the boy had something to say to him. The storekeeper turned away, though.

Anyway, during the war, husband and wife both had to leave. They were rounded up and sent to an internment camp, to Tanforan. I'm not sure where they went after that. They never came back, and someone else took over the store. The wife died in Arkansas, I think."

Sam and Megan hurry away and go to their car. Sam looks down and takes a deep breath. Megan looks over at him, and she puts her hand on his shoulder. A moment passes. They know each other well, and they don't need to say anything. Sam looks up, and looks over at Megan in the passenger seat. He turns the key in the ignition, and they drive away.

That week, Sam ducks out after the weekly product meeting at Moryana, calls the realtor, and the two of them make an offer on the Victorian.

[mayjunenov]

ive asked my mom and what shes said is basically:

1. the middle hole is a camera lens and is probably recording

2. the mask reminds her of a theatre mask, and if its japanese, a noh theatre mask

3. its a reference to some kind of bird

does kafka asagiris (author of bsd) mask remind you of something? i cant place my finger on it but something seems familiar to me

[marlocandeea]

Namanari, Hannya and Ja, three stages of spirit possession, usually because of grief or jealousy, as depicted in Noh theatre.

[starffis]

Few of my favorite classical theatre pieces that I think suits the spooky season 👀:

- The Rite of Spring (1913)

- Hanjo + Aoinoue (14-15th century)

[jadeseadragon]

Lucia Heffernan, Identity Thief, 2024, Oil on canvas wrapped panel, 24 x 24 inches.

[heaveninawildflower]

Noh theatre robe (karaori) for female role (Japan, 19th century).

Silk.

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[love1kimono]

Mochizuki 1870s

The Noh play Mochizuki (望月) is an action-packed tale of murder and retribution. Tomofusa joins forces with the wife and young son of his slain former master to take their revenge on his killer, Mochizuki. Disguised as a lion dancer Tomofusa expertly performs the celebratory dance, as the tension builds to a bloody climax.

Handwritten caption “Japan: Figuren aus einem historischen Schauspiele (Mochisuki)”. Japan: figures from a historical spectacle (Mochizuki). Very faintly in the bottom left-hand corner is written “No. 404”.

[wildflowercryptid]

thinking about kieran again... particularly about how i feel like he struggles with a weak sense of self and how him identifying so heavily with ogrepon, (or at least the version of ogrepon he originally knew,) probably helped him stabilize how he saw himself, only to have something he considered so core to his identity essentially ripped away from him. not only that, it was by someone he seemingly wanted to trust and open up to, (which i doubt he does very often.)

i definitely think that the way he's handling things is far from healthy, but i can get why he'd have such an intense reaction to losing something that was so important to him and basically being betrayed by someone he wanted to consider a friend.

[a-bit-of-japanology]

Shakkyo - Noh

Paul Binnie - 1997

This is the only print of Noh in this group of Kabuki woodblocks and is done in a "Sosaku-hanga" or creative print style identified by "drawing" straight onto the block with a chisel.

"Shakkyo" means a stone bridge, and refers to the bridge to heaven guarded by Shishi, or mythological, lions.

The mask, shishiguchi, is gilded while the wig is red and made of yaks' hair.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A HORROR FAVORITE OF BOTH HIDEO KOJIMA & GUILLERMO DEL TORO -- DON'T PASS THIS ONE UP IN OCTOBER.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on "Onibaba" (lit. "Demon hag"), also titled "The Hole," a 1964 Japanese historical drama and horror film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film was re-released on Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection as Spine #226 using the DVD master on October 5, 2021.

OVERVIEW: "Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio’s tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and macabre, Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale "Onibaba" conjures a nightmarish vision of humankind’s deepest desires and impulses."

-- CRITERION COLLECTION, c. 2021

Source: www.criterion.com/films/665-onibaba.

[shihlun]

Akio Jissoji

- This Transient Life

1970