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Zeami Motokiyo
Zeami Motokiyo was a Japanese actor, playwright and theorist who, with his father Kan'ami, created Noh theatre in its classic form. Patronised as a youth by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, he wrote many of the plays still performed and treatises on acting that stress yūgen, a subtle grace. Late in life he was exiled to Sado Island.
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