Celebrated Hosho school shite actor SANO Noboru discusses his experience and thoughts about the artform and its powerful relationship with nature in conversation with Dr. TAGUCHI Kazumi of SOAS. Audiences will enjoy the in-depth discussion about the classical pieces performed across two days, and a mini-Noh utai chant workshop.

Sano Noboru (shite actor, Hosho School)
Noboru was born into a family of Noh performers which includes his legendary uncle Sano Hajime.  In 1970, at the age of 10, Noboru became a pupil of Hosho Fusao XVIII the head of the Hosho School. Subsequently he continued his studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He holds the title “Important Intangible Cultural Asset”.

Dr Taguchi Kazumi 
Dr Taguchi stduied religons as well as Noh chant, dance, and Noh instruments at SOAS, University of London. |She is currently working on the English translation of Chinese poems by Natsume Sôseki, a notable  Japanese novelists, a scholar of British literature, and a writer of Haiku and Chinese poems, who lived in London 1901-1902.  Dr Taguchi is also a founding member of Frank Chickens (a popular Japanese musical group based in London),

Noh Reimagined 2022 is supported by:

Agency for Cultural Affairs, government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Arts Council England, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The Asahi Shimbun Foundation