Aoi no Ue (能 葵上, Lady Aoi) is a Muromachi period Japanese Noh play based on the character Lady Aoi from the Heian period novel The Tale of Genji. It is an example of the fourth category of "miscellaneous" Noh plays.

Aoi no Ue (葵の上) is a fictional character in The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari). Daughter of the Minister of the Left (Tō no Chūjō's sister) and Genji's first principal wife, she marries Genji when she is sixteen and he is only twelve.

Aoi-no-ue (Lady Aoi), the formal wife of Hikaru Genji and a daughter of the Sadaijin (the Senior Minister of State) family, has been possessed by a phantom and seriously ill. Although her family has tried various cures to help her recover, nothing has worked.

Lady Aoi's room in the estate of the Sadaijin family. Although this is not a tsukurimono, a kosode placed at the center front of the stage represents Aoi-no-ue in illness.

3 days ago · Aoi-no-Ue is an example of the kyøjomono or ‘madwoman’ plays, in which a jealous woman transforms herself into an avenging spirit. The elevated and austere style of Nø theatre, while barely accessible to Western audiences, has held a particular fascination for 20th-century European theatre (notably in the dramatic work of Yeats).

Oct 15, 2024 · Aoi no Ue or “Lady Aoi” is a Noh theatre play written by Zeami Motokiyo, a Japanese Playwright during the Heian Era, representing the themes of love, and gender roles during their...

The character of Aoi no Ue, who is haunted by the wraith and sick in bed, is expressed by laying a kosode (a kimono with short sleeves worn as underclothing by the upper classes) on the stage (which is called dashikosode).

Jan 1, 2011 · Aoi-no-Ue (Lady Aoi) is a play about a malevolent spirit, written in the fourteenth century Japan. The title is derived from a chapter of The Tale of Genji, written by Murasaki Shikibu. Aoi is...

Aoi no Ue is a Japanese Muromachi play based on the character of Lady Aoi from the Heian period novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu Aoi is the wife...

appears and through her complaints shows the deep-rooted hatred she has for Aoi no Ue. Because she is disappointed, distressed, en vious and jealous, she strikes her and disappears. Then Waki (an exorcist named Yokawa no Kohijiri) appears at …