Five Modern Noh Plays

Five Modern Noh Plays
Written byYukio Mishima
Original languageJapanese

Five Modern Noh Plays is a collection of plays written by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. Mishima wrote these plays between 1950 and 1955 and presented them as modern plays in Tokyo. Of these five, only The Damask Drum was expressed in the traditional Noh fashion. The Lady Aoi was expressed as a Western-style opera. The plays take older Nō plots or traditional and foreign fairy tales and bring them to a modern setting.

Famed Japan scholar Donald Keene translated Five Modern Noh Plays.

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