Kyogen Performance
*Performance Schedule
DATE: Thursday, January 22
TIME: 5:30 p.m. -7:45 p.m.
*The finish time is an estimate and may vary.
*Title and Main performer
Kyogen: HONEKAWA (The Mixed-Up Acolyte) / Shigeyama Senzaburo (Okura school)
Kyogen(New Work): NIMON ZAKE (Two Penny Sake) / Sato Tomohiko
Kyogen: BAKURO (The Horse Dealer) / Nomura Mansai (Izumi school)
*Audio guide: No audio guide available.
*Subtitles: Available in English and Japanese. Displayed on individual screens on front seat backs.
*Admission (Including Tax)
-Front-stage seat 5,200 yen
-Side-stage seat 3,700 yen (Students 2,600 yen)
-Middle-stage seat 3,300 yen (Students 2,300 yen)
*Tickets for students and persons with disabilities are available online. Purchases with other discounts are not accepted. Wheelchair spaces are available. For more details, please contact the Box Office.
Seating Plan
*Reservation (Telephone / Internet):
Available from: 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, December 10
*Tickets may be purchased at the National Noh Theatre box office and ticket vending machines from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Only on National Noh Theatre performance days. (Ticket sales start the day after telephone and internet reservations begin.)
*We do not hold tickets separately for over-the-counter purchases.
*National Theatre Ticket Centre (10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
[Tel.] 0570-07-9900/03-3230-3000 (for some IP phones)
Book Online
HONEKAWA (The Mixed-Up Acolyte)
Asked to lend an umbrella, the temple priest instructs his acolyte to say, “The wind tore its bones and skin apart.” Then a man comes to the temple and asks to borrow the temple’s horse.
NIMON ZAKE (Two Penny Sake)
A couple who enjoys drinking decides to open a sake stall at the riverside market. But with their favorite sake right in front of them, they can’t help themselves. This is a modern Kyogen play, first performed in 1998.
BAKURO (The Horse Dealer)
Enma, King of Hell, is punishing a horse merchant in Hell, but then decides he wants to learn how to ride a horse. Seeing his chance, the merchant takes revenge on Enma, now mounted on the horse.
