Komparu Zempo

Komparu Zempo (1454-1520 Komparu Zempo. (2007). In "Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved November 12, 2007 [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9045983] ] ?pg 1029 of "Seeds in the Heart"] ) was a Japanese Noh actor and playwright of the Komparu school. He was the grandson of Komparu Zenchiku. Zempo's plays were more popular and dramatic, novel and crowd-pleasing with large casts and more elaborate effects and sets, than the plays of his grandfather's, or his great-grandfather Zeami's, although he did have an appreciation of yugen and wabi (Zempo was a pupil of Shuko and quoted him as saying "The moon not glimpsed through rifts in clouds holds no interest" [(Zempo Zodan, 1553, p. 480)] ).

Plays

*"Arashiyama" (嵐山)
*"Hatsuyuki" ("Virgin Snow" or "First Snow"; 初雪; written in the "yugen" Zenchiku style)
*"Ikarikazuki" ("The Anchor Draping"; 碇潜)
*"Ikkaku sennin" ("One-Horned Wizard"; 一角仙人; there is a kabuki adaptation of this and is well-known abroad)
*"Ikuta Atsumori" (生田敦盛)
*"Kamo" (賀茂)
*"Tōbōsaku" (東方朔)

Treatises

*"Mōtanshichinshō" (1455) [ [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-0741%28199321%2948%3A1%3C53%3AHTWANP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V "How to Write a Noh Play; Zeami's Sando"] , by Shelley Fenno Quinn. "Monumenta Nipponica", Vol. 48, No. 1. (Spring, 1993), pp. 53-88. ]

Further reading

*"Four classical Asian plays in modern translation" (1972), by Vera Rushforth Irwin. ISBN 9780140212495. (Contains a translation of "Ikkaku sennin".)
*"Furyuno no jidai: Konparu Zenpo to sono shuhen" ("Komparu Zempo and the age of furyu (spectacle) noh performance"; 1998), by Tomoko Ishii. Published in Tokyo by "Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai"; ISBN: 9784130860277 [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/asian_theatre_journal/v022/22.1lim.html]

References

*"Zempo Zodan" (manuscript dated 1553) section 4, in Kodai Chusei Geijutsuron. Cited in Hirota, D. (ed) (1995). "Wind in the pines: classic writings of the way of tea as a Buddhist path". Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 71.