The is, as are the
Izumi school and the
Sagi school, a
school
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes comp ...
of
kyogen, a form of traditional Japanese comic theater. Kyogen of Ōkura school uses an older form of
Japanese language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been ...
than does Izumi. Their kyogen preserves the ''
sarugaku
was a form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries. One of its predecessors was a , a form of entertainment reminiscent of the modern-day circus, consisting mostly of acrobatics, juggling, and pantomime, sometimes combine ...
'' tradition.
References
Ōkuraryū Wakate Kyōgen / SHIN(in Japanese)
Kyōgen Ōkuraryū Zenchiku Tadaaki(in Japanese)
Theatre in Japan
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