Konparu Zenpō

In this Japanese name, the family name is Komparu.

Konparu Zenpō (金春 禅鳳, 1454–1520?[1][2]) was a Japanese Noh actor and playwright of the Konparu school. He was the grandson of Konparu Zenchiku. Zenpō's plays were more popular and dramatic, novel and crowd-pleasing with large casts and more elaborate effects and sets, than the plays of his grandfather's, or his great-grandfather Zeami's, although he did have an appreciation of yugen and wabi (Zenpō was a pupil of Shuko and quoted him as saying "The moon not glimpsed through rifts in clouds holds no interest"[3]).

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References

  1. 1 2 Komparu Zempo. (2007). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 12, 2007
  2. 1 2 pg 1029 of Seeds in the Heart
  3. (Zempo Zodan, 1553, p. 480)
  4. "How to Write a Noh Play; Zeami's Sando", by Shelley Fenno Quinn. Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Spring, 1993), pp. 53-88.


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