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[[Image:Kasuga-ryujin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The opening lines of ''Kasuga ryûjin'', from a [[Kita school]] ''utaibon'' published in Tokyo, 1925.]]

[[Image:Kasuga-ryujin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The opening lines of ''Kasuga ryûjin'', from a [[Kita school]] ''utaibon'' published in Tokyo, 1925.]]

*''Date: before [[1465]]''

*''Date: before [[1465]]''

*''Attributed to: [[Komparu Zenchiku]]''

*''Attributed to: [[Komparu Zenchiku]] or [[Zeami]]''

*''Japanese'': 春日竜神 or 春日龍神　''(Kasuga ryuujin)''

*''Japanese'': 春日竜神 or 春日龍神　''(Kasuga ryuujin)''

''Kasuga ryûjin'' ("The Dragon God of Kasuga") is a [[Noh]] play featuring the monk [[Myoe Shonin|Myôe Shônin]] ([[1173]]-[[1232]]), who desires to travel to China or India to study [[Buddhism]], but who is convinced by the dragon god of [[Kasuga Shrine]] that there is no need to go overseas when equivalents to the Buddhist monuments of China and India can be found close to home, in Japan.

''Kasuga ryûjin'' ("The Dragon God of Kasuga") is a [[Noh]] play featuring the monk [[Myoe Shonin|Myôe Shônin]] ([[1173]]-[[1232]]), who desires to travel to China or India to study [[Buddhism]], but who is convinced by the dragon god of [[Kasuga Shrine]] that there is no need to go overseas when equivalents to the Buddhist monuments of China and India can be found close to home, in Japan.

The play may have been written by [[Komparu Zenchiku]] ([[1405]]-[[1468]]). It is a fifth-category ''kiri-Noh'' play, of the type that would traditionally serve as a thematically appropriate conclusion for a program of five plays. All five schools of Noh have ''Kasuga ryûjin'' in their repertoire; each school's version of the play differs somewhat, with the [[Kanze school]] adding a Dragon Princess ''tsure'' character who dances a ''tennyo-mai'' ("angel dance"), while the [[Hosho school|Hôshô]] and [[Kongo school|Kongô schools]] add multiple Dragon Kings, along with a Dragon Princess who dances a ''chû-no-mai'' ("middle dance"). The [[Kanze school]] sometimes adds a segment where the Dragon God presents Myôe with a jewel.

The play may have been written by [[Komparu Zenchiku]] ([[1405]]-[[1468]]), or by the founder of Noh, [[Zeami]] ([[1363]]-[[1443]]). It is a fifth-category ''kiri-Noh'' play, of the type that would traditionally serve as a thematically appropriate conclusion for a program of five plays. All five schools of Noh have ''Kasuga ryûjin'' in their repertoire; each school's version of the play differs somewhat, with the [[Kanze school]] adding a Dragon Princess ''tsure'' character who dances a ''tennyo-mai'' ("angel dance"), while the [[Hosho school|Hôshô]] and [[Kongo school|Kongô schools]] add multiple Dragon Kings, along with a Dragon Princess who dances a ''chû-no-mai'' ("middle dance"). The [[Kanze school]] sometimes adds a segment where the Dragon God presents Myôe with a jewel.

==Plot Summary==

==Plot Summary==

==References==

==References==

*[[Royall Tyler|Tyler, Royall]]. ''Japanese Nô Dramas''. Penguin Classics, 1992. pp142-155.

*[[Royall Tyler]]. ''Japanese Nô Dramas''. Penguin Classics, 1992. pp142-155.

 

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