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Zeami, along with his sons and grandsons, composed many plays which remain central to the repertoire today. His line developed into the [[Kanze school]], the oldest of the five main schools of Noh, with the other four schools ([[Konparu school|Konparu]], [[Hosho school|Hôshô]], [[Kongo school|Kongô]], and [[Kita school|Kita]]) becoming established over the centuries, some as late as the [[Edo period]], though all five are quite firmly established today.
Zeami, along with his sons and grandsons, composed many plays which remain central to the repertoire today. His line developed into the [[Kanze school]], the oldest of the five main schools of Noh, with the other four schools ([[Konparu school|Konparu]], [[Hosho school|Hôshô]], [[Kongo school|Kongô]], and [[Kita school|Kita]]) becoming established over the centuries, some as late as the [[Edo period]], though all five are quite firmly established today.
Noh continued to be patronized by samurai elites through the [[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] and [[Edo period]]s. [[Oda Nobunaga]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], and a number of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] are known to have been particularly fond of the art form, even practicing it themselves. Noh remained strongest, as a result, in Kyoto and Edo/Tokyo, but it found patrons among many of the provincial ''daimyô'' as well. Many [[jokamachi|castle-towns]] were littered with Noh stages, and for example, [[Shimazu Tadatsune|Shimazu Iehisa]] is said to have chided his father [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]] for not encouraging Noh in [[Satsuma han]] earlier; Iehisa then invited Noh actor [[Nakanishi Hidenaga]] from Kyoto to Kagoshima, where the Nakanishi family would continue to serve as Noh masters for the Shimazu lords down through the generations. Noh performances also took place at the [[Satsuma Edo mansion|Shimazu mansions in Edo]] quite regularly, including on occasions when the Shogun paid official visits to the mansion.<ref>"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/culture/culture22.html Nôgaku]," ''Shimazu-ke ga hagukunda bunka'', Shôkoshûseikan official website.</ref> To give another example, Udaka Michishige, a prominent Noh master active in Kyoto today is the head of a lineage of Noh masters who served the lords of [[Iyo-Matsuyama han]] in Shikoku, and [[Iyo-Matsuyama castle]] still maintains today a significant collection of Noh masks, costumes, and so forth.
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