Noh Circles in Twentieth-Century Japanese Performance

5.1 Kihachi scratch — Kihachi’s scratch in Ozu’s *A Story of Floating Weeds* (1934).

Modernist noh, including Pound’s mis-translations and Ito’s translation of At the Hawk’s Well, influenced scholarship and performance in Japan – including Japanese film. Tracing this circular cultural exchange demonstrates the inadequacy of most accounts of Japanese modernism, which presume its opposition to the traditional arts.

Kakitsubata scene — Scene from the noh play *Kakitsubata* in Ozu’s *Late Spring* (1949).