Zeami 世阿弥
Noh actor · writer · Muromachi Japan · 1363?–1443?
The actor and playwright who perfected Noh. He wrote down in secret what he had learned from his father, meaning it only for his successor.
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c. 1400 · On the praise a young actor wins for a passing freshness
The mind that takes the flower of the moment for the true flower is the mind that carries you still further from the true flower.
時分の花をまことの花と知る心が、真実の花になほ遠ざかる心なり。Fushikaden (The Flowering Spirit), training by age, "Twenty-four or twenty-five"
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