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Kanze Kojirô Nobumitsu was a [[Noh]] ''[[otsuzumi|ôtsuzumi]]'' drummer<ref>Thomas Hare, ''Zeami Performance Notes'', Columbia University Press (2008), 151. </ref> and playwright, known especially for the play ''[[Ataka]]'', upon which the [[kabuki]] play ''[[Kanjincho|Kanjinchô]]'' was later based.

Kanze Kojirô Nobumitsu was a [[Noh]] ''[[otsuzumi|ôtsuzumi]]'' drummer<ref>Thomas Hare, ''Zeami Performance Notes'', Columbia University Press (2008), 151. </ref> and playwright, known especially for the play ''[[Ataka]]'', upon which the [[kabuki]] play ''[[Kanjincho|Kanjinchô]]'' was later based.

Along with his contemporaries [[Kanze Nagatoshi]] and [[Konparu Zenpo|Konparu Zenpô]], Nobumitsu is considered a pioneer in ''[[furyu Noh|fûryû Noh]]'', featuring more complex plots and a greater emphasis on action and drama between characters rather than internal psychological struggles.

Nobumitsu was the seventh son of [[On'ami]], third head of the [[Kanze school]]. Along with his son [[Kanze Nagatoshi|Kanze Yajirô Nagatoshi]] and contemporary [[Konparu Zenpo|Konparu Zenpô]], Nobumitsu is considered a pioneer in ''[[furyu Noh|fûryû Noh]]'' ("in-style Noh") or ''geki-Noh'' ("dramatic Noh"), featuring more complex plots and a greater emphasis on action and drama between characters rather than internal psychological struggles. Unlike Zenpô and Nagatoshi, however, Nobumitsu's plays - especially ''Ataka'' and ''[[Funabenkei]]'' - have retained considerable popularity in the repertoire down through the centuries.<ref>Lim, 49n19.</ref> Fifteen of Nobumitsu's works remain in the active repertoire today; of those, nine are so-called ''geki Noh''.<ref>Tsubaki, 300.</ref>

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==Plays==

==Plays==

*''Ataka''

*''Ataka''

*''[[Funabenkei]]''

*''Funabenkei''

*''[[Kocho|Kôchô]]''<ref>Beng Choo Lim, "Performing Furyû Nô: The Theatre of Konparu Zenpô," ''Asian Theatre Journal'' 22:1 (2005), 37.</ref>

*''[[Kocho|Kôchô]]''<ref>Beng Choo Lim, "Performing Furyû Nô: The Theatre of Konparu Zenpô," ''Asian Theatre Journal'' 22:1 (2005), 37.</ref>

*''[[Rashomon (Noh)|Rashômon]]''

*''[[Rashomon (Noh)|Rashômon]]''

==References==

==References==

*''Japanese Noh Drama: Plays Selected and Translated from the Japanese'', vol. 3, Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai (1960), 152.

*''Japanese Noh Drama: Plays Selected and Translated from the Japanese'', vol. 3, Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai (1960), 152.

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