Noh Theater with Sakurama Ujin Ep.1 | 700 Years of Noh and the Konparu School

Where does Noh theater begin? Sakurama Ujin, 21st-generation head of the Sakurama house, traces 700 years of Noh back to Prince Shōtoku's time. Noh, Japan's theater of song, dance, and word, was brought to completion some 700 years ago by Kan'ami and his son Zeami. Zeami's writings place its origin around the year 600, when Hata no Kawakatsu, at Prince Shōtoku's command, offered performing arts to the people. The Konparu school honours Hata no Kawakatsu as its founder. Sakurama Ujin, a shite-kata Noh performer of the Konparu school, tells how the Sakurama house led a troupe of performers revived under Katō Kiyomasa, served the Hosokawa lords in Higo, present-day Kumamoto, until the Meiji Restoration, and later carried Noh abroad, beginning with a film of Aoi no Ue made in English, German, and Italian. ▶ Ep.2 | On Stage at Four, Heir to the Sakurama House →    • Noh Theater with Sakurama Ujin Ep.2 | On S...   ▶ Ep.3 | Learning Noh by Ear and Body in Tokyo →    • Noh Theater with Sakurama Ujin Ep.3 | Lear...   🎬 See the full series →    • Sakurama Ujin | Noh of the Konparu School,...   🎬 Exclusive | Behind the Scenes → https://bespoke-discovery.com/yt/saku... 📖 Read the Interview → https://bespoke-discovery.com/yt/saku... Experience Noh of the Konparu school with Sakurama Ujin on his family stage in Tokyo. ✨ Explore private cultural experiences → www.bespoke-discovery.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About Bespoke Discovery ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bespoke Discovery invites you into the hidden world of Japan's most extraordinary artisans, traditions, and cultural experiences — rarely seen, never forgotten. 🌐 www.bespoke-discovery.com 📍 Based in Japan | Serving discerning travelers worldwide #Noh #NohTheater #NohTheatre #KonparuSchool #Zeami #JapaneseTheater #PerformingArts #JapaneseCulture #Kumamoto #Tokyo #HiddenJapan #BespokeDiscovery