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Asian theatre

an ideal of subtle, elegant and mysterious beauty that Zeami made central to Noh performance.

In Asian theatre, yugen refers to an ideal of subtle, elegant and mysterious beauty that Zeami made central to Noh performance. This meaning comes from Zeami (1984) in On the art of the nō drama.[1]

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References

Zeami. (1984). On the art of the nō drama: The major treatises of Zeami (J. T. Rimer & M. Yamazaki, Trans.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691101545

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