She was one of the first women in Noh, the traditional Japanese dramatic dance
Noh is a form of traditional Japanese dramatic dance, performed by masked actors.
Today’s Doodle celebrates the life of actress and playwright Kimiko Tsumura on the 120th anniversary of her birth. She was one of the first women in the field of Noh.
Tsoumura introduced new artistic values ​​through her works, in an area that was until then dominated by men.
He was born in what is now Akashi, Japan in 1902. At a young age, he chose to engage in traditional theater after falling in love with drama. This would be a challenge, as girls in Tokyo in the early 1900s were taught lessons in Noh, but were barred from the professional one.
When she was seventeen, she became a student of Kanze Kasetsu, a famous actor. During her studies, Tsumura learned and memorized all two hundred classic Noh plays. She was then given the opportunity to travel to Busan, Korea and teach, eventually building her reputation as a skilled instructor. At nineteen she made her first public appearance on the stage.
News of this performance reached her homeland and shocked the Nohgaku Association, which mediated and supervised all Noh performances in Japan. Tsumura was ordered not to contact the club and her relationship with Kasetsu ended abruptly.
Unable to give up her dream, Tsumura tried to master every aspect of the art and opened her own school, Ryokusen-Kai, when she returned to Japan in 1925.
For the next fifty years, she wrote and performed many of her own works, traveling back and forth between Japan and Korea. Many of her students became accomplished performers and continued the legacy of love and admiration for art. Tsumura paved the way for subsequent generations of female Noh actors, and her work is still celebrated and recognized today.
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