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He was succeeded as head of the Kanze school in [[1422]] by his son, [[Kanze Motomasa]]. That same year, he took the [[tonsure]], and began conveying his secrets to his sons more fully.

He was succeeded as head of the Kanze school in [[1422]] by his son, [[Kanze Motomasa]]. That same year, he took the [[tonsure]], and began conveying his secrets to his sons more fully.

He was exiled to [[Sado Island]] in [[1434]], but eventually returned before dying in [[1443]]. Most of his writings on performance were originally conceived as secret transmissions, to be treasured and guarded, and passed down only within the lineage of the Kanze school. One exception is the ''[[Shudosho|Shûdôsho]]'' ("Learning the Profession"), which was meant for widespread circulation from the beginning, and which was published in a popularly accessible woodblock book form in [[1772]] by [[Kanze Motoakira]] ([[1722]]-[[1774]]). Though some excerpts of the other texts did end up leaking out and circulating in either manuscript or published form over the centuries, it is for this reason that these works in their entireties were almost entirely unknown for hundreds of years, and were not published in anything resembling a complete form until [[1909]].

He was exiled to [[Sado Island]] in [[1434]], but eventually returned before dying in [[1443]]. He was buried alongside his father at [[Shinju-an]], a [[tatchu|sub-temple]] within the compound of [[Daitoku-ji]], in northern central Kyoto.<ref>''Kindai kabuki nenpyô kyôto-hen'' 近代歌舞伎年表京都篇, National Theatre of Japan (2004), 714.</ref>

 

Most of his writings on performance were originally conceived as secret transmissions, to be treasured and guarded, and passed down only within the lineage of the Kanze school. One exception is the ''[[Shudosho|Shûdôsho]]'' ("Learning the Profession"), which was meant for widespread circulation from the beginning, and which was published in a popularly accessible woodblock book form in [[1772]] by [[Kanze Motoakira]] ([[1722]]-[[1774]]). Though some excerpts of the other texts did end up leaking out and circulating in either manuscript or published form over the centuries, it is for this reason that these works in their entireties were almost entirely unknown for hundreds of years, and were not published in anything resembling a complete form until [[1909]].

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