Kanami
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was a Japanese Noh actor, author, and musician during the Muromachi period. Born in Iga Province, Kan'ami also went by and . He is the father of the well-known playwright .
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Iga Province
- Place of death
- Suruga Province
- Child
- Zeami Motokiyo
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Field of work
- theatre performance
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- date of birth
- 1333-00-00
- date of death
- 1384-00-00
- name in native language
- 観阿弥
- relative
- Kusunoki Masashige
- Commons category
- Kan'ami
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was a Japanese Noh actor, author, and musician during the Muromachi period. Born in Iga Province, Kan'ami also went by and . He is the father of the well-known playwright .
==Theater== Kan'ami's career began in Obata, Nabari-shi, Mie when he founded a sarugaku theater group in the Kansai region on the main Honshu island. The troupe moved to Yamato and formed the Yuzaki theater company, which would become the school of Noh theater. He grew in popularity and began making trips to Kyoto to give performances. In 1374, the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was in the audience of a performance and was so impressed by it that he became Kan'ami's patron.
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