Shinto and Noh and Diplomats
Last Saturday I was interpreting at a seminar that Jinja Honchō held for the Diplomatic Corps in Tokyo, on Shinto and Noh. This was the latest in a series that used to be annual, but that got interrupted by the pandemic — it finally restarted this year. As the speaker who opened said, Noh has a reputation for being hard to understand, boring, and soporific. Fortunately, the seminar wasn’t. That opening speaker, Kenji Kato, noted that there has been a lot of work on the relationship between Noh and Zen… Read More »Shinto and Noh and Diplomats