10.The Present and Future of Noh

  Most of modern Noh are performed in a Noh theater. It becomes the Meiji period later that the stage form called “The Noh theater” incorporating a Noh stage indoors was established.At present, The Noh widen the foot as practicing of "Utai" and "Shimai" based on the system that was reborn.

 In addition, after the Meiji era, the Noh that was introduced widely abroad was praised highly by the intellectual of each country, theatrical people. It affected their activity. The overseas performance that came to be carried out substantially from the 1950s colonized, and people who really watched Noh any place other than Japan increased.Backed by such an international high evaluation, it is appointed to a world immaterial inheritance.

  However, there are some problems with modern Noh. One of those, there are very few future actors of the Noh. Basically, an actor of the Noh is only the veteran who is well surpassed for 20 years in an art career.Above all, there is the person more than 50 years in the longest one. What's why the Noh is profound, and it is the evidence that people who can enjoy regardless of any people regardless of age or sex. On the other hand, it is that there is not a person who readily begun newly. If the same state continues, Noh may fall. This story is not an exaggerated story. There is the risk that the Noh which lasts nearly 650 years since Kanami Zeami was successful disappears soon.The Noh surely see once, and there cannot feel that it is impulsively good or interesting. The Noh is not an entertainment of such a kind. However, it is the entertainment that the profundity and taste soak through a heart so as to watch. In old days, the daimyos who including Hideyoshi Toyotomi really took a lesson of the chanting of a Noh text and the dance and they were to a captive in the throughout the life fun. I think that it is the universality of the Noh which followed to date.

  Kabukiza is replaced with a new one, and the first on the list of traditional arts becomes Kabuki now. Because of overwhelmed in Kabuki, and the Noh burns down. Therefore, It is problem in the future to get the popularity by conveying fun and profundity of the Noh all over the world as well as Japan.2020 when Tokyo Olympics Paralympics are decided, and a tourist comes from the world, the Noh that is the Japanese oldest traditional arts to deliver the world, and is it the greatest chance to tell the country about the good points of Noh once again?