Zeami is a crater on
Mercury
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* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
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. Its name was adopted by the
International Astronomical Union
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in 1976, after the Japanese dramatist and playwright
Zeami Motokiyo
(c. 1363 – c. 1443), also called , was a Japanese aesthetician, actor, and playwright.
His father, Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, introduced him to Noh theater performance at a young age, and found that he was a skilled actor. Kan'ami was also skill ...
.
are present within Zeami.
The crater
Stevenson is to the northeast of Zeami.
Sophocles
Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...
is to the south, and
Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and ...
is to the southwest.
Views
File:Mariner 10 image 0000215.png, Mariner 10
''Mariner 10'' was an American Robotic spacecraft, robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury (planet), Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets.
''Ma ...
image with Zeami at center
File:Zeami crater EN0242670906M.jpg, Zeami crater interior
File:Zeami crater EN0244776604M.jpg, Oblique view across northern Zeami crater
File:Zeami crater hollows EN1052296413M.jpg, Detail of hollow in northern Zeami crater
File:Hollows within Zeami crater PIA19267.jpg, Another detail of hollows in the crater
External links
Zeami in color from the Planetary Society
References
Impact craters on Mercury
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