Konparu Zenpō

Konparu Zenpō (金春 禅鳳, 1454–1520?[1][2]) was a Japanese Noh actor and playwright of the Konparu school. He was the grandson of Konparu Zenchiku. Zenpō's plays were more popular and dramatic, novel and crowd-pleasing with large casts and more elaborate effects and sets, than the plays of his grandfather's, or his great-grandfather Zeami's, although he did have an appreciation of yugen and wabi (Zenpō was a pupil of Shuko and quoted him as saying "The moon not glimpsed through rifts in clouds holds no interest"[3]).

In this Japanese name, the family name is Komparu.

Plays
  • Arashiyama (嵐山)
  • Hatsuyuki ("Virgin Snow" or "First Snow"; 初雪; written in the yugen[2] Zenchiku style[1])
  • Ikarikazuki ("The Anchor Draping"; 碇潜)
  • Ikkaku sennin ("One-Horned Wizard"; 一角仙人; this Noh inspired the kabuki play Narukami)
  • Ikuta Atsumori (生田敦盛)
  • Kamo (賀茂)
  • Tōbōsaku (東方朔)

Treatises
  • Mōtanshichinshō (1455)[4]

Further reading
  • Four classical Asian plays in modern translation (1972), by Vera Rushforth Irwin. ISBN 978-0-14-021249-5. (Contains a translation of Ikkaku sennin.)
  • Furyuno no jidai: Konparu Zenpo to sono shuhen ("Komparu Zempo and the age of furyu (spectacle) noh performance"; 1998), by Tomoko Ishii. Published in Tokyo by Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai; ISBN 978-4-13-086027-7
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References
  1. Komparu Zempo. (2007). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 12, 2007
  2. pg 1029 of Seeds in the Heart
  3. (Zempo Zodan, 1553, p. 480)
  4. "How to Write a Noh Play; Zeami's Sando", by Shelley Fenno Quinn. Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Spring, 1993), pp. 53-88.
  • Zempo Zodan (manuscript dated 1553) section 4, in Kodai Chusei Geijutsuron. Cited in Hirota, D. (ed) (1995). Wind in the pines: classic writings of the way of tea as a Buddhist path. Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 71.


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