Sunday, November 20 02pm
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017
Tomoeda Akiyo is a shite, or principal role actor from the Kita School of Noh. Tomoeda trained under Grand Master Kita Minoru and made his stage debut in 1947. Significant Noh plays he has performed in include: Shojo-midare, Okina, Sotoba Komachi and Obasute. Tomoeda‘s first international appearance was in New York in 1964 under The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, followed by stops in Washington D.C., Boston and Chicago. Tomoeda also performed abroad in America in 1974 and 1975, Norway in 1997 and South Korea in 2001. He became holder of Important Intangible Cultural Properties for Noh theater in 1982 and was designated a Living National Treasure by the Japanese Government in 2008. Tomoeda is a recipient of the 28th Ministry of Education of the Government of Japan Fine Arts New Face Award, the 45th Ministry of Education of the Government of Japan Fine Arts Award, the 16th Kanze Hisao Memorial Hosei University Noh Theater Award, the prestigious purple Ribbon Medal by Japanese Government, the Imperial Prize from The Japan Art Academy and the Pola Foundation for the Promotion of Traditional Japanese Culture Award. Tomoeda will perform in two Noh performances at Japan Society on November 19 & 20.
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