For hundreds of years, the Japanese theater form of Kyogen solely existed as comic relief entertainment during the intermissions of dramatic Noh performances. However, the 600 year-old Kyogen practice ...

Titled “Kokuritsu Gekijo no Tanjo” (The birth of the National ... Teranaka’s hobbies were “gidayu-bushi” traditional Japanese puppet theater music and oil painting.

But what happens when you combine traditional masks from Japanese theater with Western art and pop icons? This fusion of art forms is on display at Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou ...