Plays

**Plays**
The photo above is from the last part of Funa Benkei.

The photo above is a mask that may be used in Matsukazi.

Download a copy of the Noh play Funa Benkei below.



Below you may download a copy of additional material related to the play __Funa Benkei__. Please note that the first few pages are a translation of the latter part of the text in English. These are followed by that same portion of the text in Japanese. After that is a Japanese version that reads from left to right and contains the specific staging instructions for chanting the lines. The sesame seed-like marks are the particular instructions regarding the speaking and chanting.

These materials were used by American student actors at Michigan State University when training to perform the roles for a production of Funa Benkei in the 1980s under the guidance of Akira Matsui, the distinguished Noh actor of the Kita Noh school.



Most of the scene is contained in the following YouTube video.

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To connect to several other plays translated by Royall Tyler simply click below:

[|Takasago]

Matsukazi

Hagoromo

Izutsu As you will see when you get into the above site there are other plays for which you have access. Shop around and see what's there. For details on the play, you may wish to go to this site.