Plays
Hashitomi
Kokaji
Why These Plays?
Elements
Form
Actors
Music
Movement
Text
Staging
Noh as Intermedia
Form
Actors
Music
Movement
Text
Staging
Introduction
Voices
Taiko
Ōtsuzumi & Kotsuzumi
Nohkan
Notation
Strokes of the Ōtsuzumi
There are three basic sounds produced on the ōtsuzumi drum:
Strong and resonant
Weak and resonant
Weak and damped