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Chakagi Zatō (The Tea Sniffing Blind Men)
- Asian Theatre Journal
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 24, Number 1, Spring 2007
- pp. 50-60
- 10.1353/atj.2007.0019
- Article
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The Tea Sniffing Blind Men is one of nine kyōgen plays featuring a blind man as shite (main character). It is unique in that it presents a formal community of the blind rather than two or three characters, and shows them conducting a rather unconventional tea ceremony. The characters make up the category of plays known as zatō mono in the Izumi School, and shukke zatō in the ōkura School.