Kyogen"Sakka (Sakka, the Thief)" Ohkura School: Shime Shigeyama
Noh"Hachinoki (The Dwarf Tree)" Kanze School: Toshiyuki Takushima
A travelling priest (in fact, Hojo Tokiyori) seeks shelter at night, during a snowstorm, at Sano Tsuneyoﾕs home. Tsuneyo, who is in straitened circumstances, initially refuses, but then relents and welcomes him into his house. In order to warm his guest, he sacrifices his remaining three valuable dwarf trees (Hachinoki) by burning them. Later, he tells the visitor of his loyalty to Kamakura. When the government in Kamakura summons warriors to return, Tsuneyo rushes to the capital, where he is identified by Tokiyori, who gives him three estates in recompense for the trees.

(1) Noh"Michimori" Kongo School: Michishige Udaka
A priest who mourns for the souls of the Taira family at Naruto-no-ura, Awa, encounters a woman and an old man in a small boat. They tell the priest about Taira no Michimori and his wife, Kosaisho-no-Tsubone and then disappear beneath the waves. Later, when the priest prays for them, Michimori, in the form of a warrior, appears with his wife. They tell the priest the story of their separation and of Michimoriﾕs death. They thank him for his prayers, which have enabled them both to attain salvation, and then disappear once more into the sea.
Noh"Miwa (God Miwa)" Kongo School: Tatsunori Kongo

(2) Noh"Sansho (Three Laughs)" Kongo School: Michiharu Teshima
Noh"Kazuraki Kagura" Kongo School: Hisanori Kongo

Western and Eastern masked comedies combine in this dream-like performance, involving Kyogen, the universally popular Japanese comedy, and commedia dell'arte, the Italian improvisational masked play that dates back to the sixteenth century.

"Lecture and Demonstration"
Lectures on the knowledge and dramaturgy of Kyogen and of commedia dell'arte will be accompanied by the demonstration of performance.

Kyogen"Oba-ga-sake (The Stingy Aunt and her Sake)"
Taro Kaja goes to visit his Aunt, who owns a sake shop. She is mean and has never offered him even one sip of sake. He tries many ways to get some from her on this occasion, but she remains impervious to his efforts. Pretending to go home, the nephew wears a demon mask, threatens her and tries to drink her sakeﾉ..

Commedia dellﾕarte "Il Servitore di Due Perdoni
(The Servant of Two Masters)"
Arlecchino, a servant, works for two masters by pretending to be two different people. This is the most famous play by Carlo Goldoni, the 18th-century Venetian playwright.

New production "TONTO Nusutto (Thief)"
A timid, dim-witted Italian sneaks at midnight into the large home of a rich man in Osaka. He tries to steal what he wants but the owner, alerted by the noise, discovers him... This is the first ever collaboration between Kyogen and commedia dell'arte. "Tonto" means "stupid" in Italian. Playwright and Composition by Tadashi Ogasawara.
Major actors
Tadashi Ogasawara, Angelo Crotti

10-min. walk from Osaka Stn. on the JR Line, 7-min. walk from Umeda Stn.on the Hankyu Line

Noh"Sanemori" Kanze School: Susumu Hatano
Kyogen"Uo-zekkyo (The Fish Sermon)" Ohkura School:Chuichiro Zenchiku
Noh"Kappo" Kanze School: Nobuyuki Yamamoto

Noh"Oimatsu (The Aged Pine)" Kanze School: Yoshitaka Yamada
Kyogen"Gan Tsubute (A goose and a Pebble)"
Ohkura School: Tadashige Zenchiku
Noh"Fujito (The Battlefield of Fujito)" Kanze School: Takuji Ueda

(1) "Sambaso"
Talk (Shigeru Shigeyama)
Kyogen "Oni-gawara (TheDemon-faced Tile)"
Kyogen "Inuyamabushi (The Dog and the Yamabushi)"

(2) Talk (Masakuni Shigeyama)
Kyogen "Niwatori-muko (The Rooster Groom)" Kyogen "Kuchimane (The Mimics)"
Kyogen "Dontaro (Dontaro's Method for Handling Woman)"

(3) Talk (Sennojo Shigeyama)
Kyogen "Koji (Three Tangerines on a Branch)"
Kyogen "Ochanomizu (Drawing Water)"
Kyogen "Hanago"

(4) Talk (Doji Shigeyama)
Kyogen "Uo-zekkyo (The Fish Sermon)"
Kyogen "Shidohogaku (Shidohogaku, the Horse)"
Kyogen "Fuku-no-kami (The God of Wealth)"

Ohkura School: Sensaku Shigeyama, Sennojo Shigeyama,
Sengoro Shigeyama, Shime Shigeyama, Akira Shigeyama,
Senzaburo Shigeyama, Masakuni Shigeyama, Motohiko Shigeyama,
Shigeru Shigeyama, Ippei Shigeyama, Doji Shigeyama and others

(1)
"Okina (The Sacred Elder)" Gensho Umewaka, Masakuni Shigeyama Kyogen"Fukube-no-shin (The Gourd Beaters)"
Ohkura School: Sensaku Shigeyama, Shime Shigeyama
Noh"Sagi(The Heron)" Kanze School: Yoshio Izumi

(2)
"Okina (The Sacred Elder)" Yusetsu Katayama, Ryuhei Zenchiku
Kyogen"Sadogitsune (The Sado Fox)" Ohkura School: Chuzaburo Shigeyama
Noh"Shozon" Kanze School: Tetsunojo Kanze

(1)
"Okina (The Sacred Elder)" Kanze School: Matasaburo Ohe
Noh"Ema (TheVotive Tablets)" Kanze School: Hirohisa Inoue
Noh"Hachinoki (The Dwarf Trees)" Kanze School: Kiyokazu Kanze
Noh"Iwafune (The Boat of Heaven)" Kanze School: Hiroshi Takeda

(2)
Noh"Tadanori" Kanze School: Toyohiko Sugiura
Noh"Uneme (The Lady in Waiting)" Kanze School: Yusetsu Katayama
Noh"Funa-Benkei (Benkei in the Boat)" Kanze School: Yasuhiro Urata

Noh"Kiso" Kanze School: Takuji Ueda
Maibayashi"Toru" Kiyokazu Kanze
Noh"Kinuta (The Fulling Board)" Kanze School: Takahiro Ueda
A wife whose husband has gone to the capital to deal with a lawsuit dies while waiting for him to come home. When the husband returns and mourns for her, the spirit of his wife, in the form of a haggard figure, appears and tells him of her continued love for him. She complains bitterly about her cold-minded husband, but eventually attains peace through reciting the Lotus Sutra.

This is a new attempt to help the audience to enjoy Noh by enabling them to participate in the performance, rather than merely by watching it. A workshop to be held beforehand will help audiences both with and without experience to participate in the performance. Visitors can enjoy this experience at the Yamamoto Noh Theater.

Noh"Hagoromo (The Feather Mantle)" Kanze School:
Akihiro Yamamoto
A fisherman finds and is about to take a beautiful robe of tennyo (a celestial nymph), but requests her to dance in exchange for returning it to her. A masterpiece of beautiful dance against the background of Miho-no-Matsubara and Mt. Fuji.