KYOTO, Japan - Noh mask carver Keiko Udaka is breathing new life into a block of wood from a 200-year-old Japanese cypress ...

The five covers of T’s annual Culture issue — which this year is devoted entirely to Japan and its outsize cultural influence ...

Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over the course of a few months, who have ...

In Japanese theater, it is often thought that there are three main genres: Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku ... where actors take the stage in ornate, colorful costumes and heavy, expressive makeup, performers ...

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In Japan, there are different forms of theatrical performances ... (chuckles) There were schools of Noh masks. There were special Noh mask makers, and there still are today.

Noh mask carver Keiko Udaka is breathing new life into a block of wood from a 200-year-old Japanese cypress tree. In her quiet workshop in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, which also functions as a noh training ...

It was, instead, her compulsion to put all of her being into a raging theatrical intensity ... uses music as though he were filming a Noh play but with masks off. The fact that this film has ...

If you’re curious about traditional Japanese performing arts but don’t want to commit to a long theater experience ... styled after a traditional Noh stage (yes, including the iconic pine ...