“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, ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The full-face masks worn by actors in a traditional Japanese Noh drama are rigid and lifeless. They appear to come to life and change expression when worn by a skilled player. But the emotional ...

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 ...