| 释义 |
Noh, No|nəʊ|
Also Nō.
[Jap.]
The traditional Japanese masked drama evolved from the rites of Shinto worship and substantially unchanged since the 15th c.; the oldest form of drama in Japan. Freq. attrib.
1871A. B. Mitford Tales of Old Japan I. 156 A kind of classical opera, called Nô, which is performed on stages specially built for the purpose. 1899[see kyogen]. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 169 Briefly speaking, the Nō was a dance of the most stately character, adapted to the incidents of dramas. 1917W. B. Yeats Lett. (1954) IV. 631 The music to my Noh play The Dreaming of the Bones. 1927E. Pound Let. 9 Nov. (1971) 214, I wonder if Iwasaki is trained in No or if you and he want to undertake revision of my redaction of Fenollosa's paper on the Noh (or No; better I think spelled with the ‘h’). 1938D. T. Suzuki Zen Buddhism & its Influence on Jap. Culture i. iv. 70 The Noh-play ‘Kokaji’ gives us some idea about the moral and religious significance of the sword among the Japanese. 1958[see kyogen]. 1960B. Leach Potter in Japan vii. 155 A grey, wooden, thatched, open-air Nō stage where the monks still perform under an August moon. 1964I. Fleming You only live Twice i. 15 ‘Grey Pearl’..was so thickly made up that she looked like a character out of a No play. 1973Times 20 Mar. 9/5 The bare events of the tragedy are retained and acted out in trance-like, Noh-play fashion. 1974S. Marcus Minding the Store (1975) xiv. 281 Billie gave me..a Noh mask from Japan. |