and characters from 18th-century Kabuki theater. What's so unique about Bidou Yamaguchi's take on Noh masks? "The appeal of Bidou's work is his ability to bring something so rooted in Japanese ...

Among the already-listed Japanese intangible heritage are the performing arts of Noh and Kabuki and "washoku" traditional cuisine. Tokyo is also seeking to have "shodo" calligraphy listed as an ...

and what held me spellbound first was 'onnagata' (an actor who plays female roles in Kabuki)," Keene recalled in the Japanese translation of his 1990 work titled "Noh and Bunraku: Two Forms of ...