Abstract

The kyōgen world has undergone an amazing transformation since the end of World War II. This translation has been adapted from Seki Kobayashi's extensive (140-page) chapter "Kyōgen," in Yokomichi Mario and Seki Kobayashi's Nihon koten geinō to gendai: Nō kyōgen (Japanese Traditional Performing Arts and Today: Nō and Kyōgen, 1996).

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