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Maxime Pierre, « The flower and the seed: Rethinking the character on stage through Zeami’s treatises on Noh », Revue de littérature comparée, ID : 10670/1.c0c808...
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In Zeami’s treatises on Noh, there is no place for what modern Japanese would call a character (人物jinbutsu). Instead, Zeami describes human forms (人体 jintai) produced by the actor on stage. These forms (姿 sugata/shi) are associated with the metaphor of the flower (花 hana/ka), which represents the beauty of the form on stage, and the metaphor of the seed (種 tane/shu), which refers to the performance in its potentiality. Paradoxically, this lively metaphor of the flower is based on the artificial performance of a masked actor who is compared to a puppet (操り ayatsuri). Instead of a transcendental subject, we encounter the immanence of an artificial form that takes on freshness and living beauty through the actor’s mastery.
