The Nohs are supreme in evoking a mood. The use of masks is a custom which is in perfect accordance with the Oriental denial of personality, while in that, as in the unchangeability of the stage, the use of dancing, music, and singing, […]
1921 February 9, in The Weekly Review, volume 4, page 141
The Nohs are one-act religious plays, […]
1941, Edmund Fuller, A pageant of the theatre, page 55:
The Noh is the oldest form of the Japanese theatre, going back farther than the origins of the Kabuki. […] Sometimes comic interludes were played between the Nohs, to break up the emotional strain of the performance.
1972, Fran Averett Tanner, Basic drama projects:
Usually five Nohs are presented at one performance, interspersed with three Kyogens.
1997, Gauguin’s Intimate Journals, translated by Van Wyck Books, page 25:
His reverence the priest does not like these Nohs, which are without words and consist entirely of gestures, […]
2009, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Aesthetics and politics of space in Russia and Japan, page 45 [1]:
It is necessary to note that in ancient times Nohs were never played inside buildings but outside, […]
