Zeami Motokiyo

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*Fūshikaden. 7 vols. [also known as Kadensho; Teachings on Style and the Flower] (treatises) 1400-c. 1406

Kashu [The Practice of the Flower] (treatise) 1418

Sekidera Komachi [Komachi at Sekidera] (play) before 1419

Tōru (play) before 1419

Shikadō [The True Path to the Flower] (treatise) 1420

Aridōshi (play) before 1423

Atsumori (play) before 1423

Funabashi [The Floating Bridge] (play) before 1423

Higaki [The Woman within the Cyprus Fence] (play) before 1423

Hyakuman (play) before 1423

Kayoi Komachi [Komachi and the Hundred Nights] (play) before 1423

Kiyotsune (play) before 1423

Koi no omoni [The Burden of Love] (play) before 1423

Kōya monogurui [The Madman at Kōya] (play) before 1423

Matsukaze [Pining Wind] (play) before 1423

Michimori (play) before 1423

Oimatsu [The Aged Crone] (play) before 1423

Sanemori (play) before 1423

Sotoba Komachi [Komachi on the Stupa] (play) before 1423

Tadanori (play) before 1423

Taisan Pakun [The Great Lord of Mount T'ai] (play) before 1423

Takasago (play) before 1423

Tango monogurui [The Madman at Tango] (play) before 1423

Ukifune (play) before 1423

Yorimasha (play) before 1423

Yōrō [The Care of the Aged] (play) before 1423

Yumiyawata [The Bow at Hachiman Shrine] (play) before 1423

Nōsakusho [also known as Sandō; The Elements of Nō] (treatise) 1423

Kakyō [A Mirror Held to the Flower] (treatise) 1424

Yūgaku shūdō fūken [Disciplines for the Joy of Art] (treatise) c. 1424

Fūgyokushū [Collection about Good Music] (treatise) c. 1426

Akoya no Matsu [The Pine of Akoya] (play) before 1427

Kyūi [Notes on the Nine Levels] (treatise) c. 1427

Furu (play) before 1428

Rikugi [Six Genres] (treatise) 1428

Shūgyoku tokka [Finding Gems and Gaining the Flower] (treatise) 1428

Aoi no Ue [The Lady Aoi] (play) before 1430

Fujisan (play) before 1430

Fushimi (play) before 1430

Hanagatami [The Flower Basket] (play) before 1430

Hanjo [The Lady Han] (play) before 1430

Hōjōgawa [The River for the Hōjōe Ceremony] (play) before 1430

Izutsu [Well Curb] (play) before 1430

Kinuta [The Cloth-Beating Block] (play) before 1430

Nishikigi [The Brocade Tree] (play) before 1430

Obasute [The Deserted Crone] (play) before 1430

Saigyōzakura [Saigyō and the Cherry Tree] (play) before 1430

Sakuragawa [Cherry Blossom River] (play) before 1430

Semimaru (play) before 1430

Suma Genji [Genji at Suma] (play) before 1430

Tsuchiguruma [The Barrow] (play) before 1430

Ukon no baba [The Riding Ground of Ukon] (play) before 1430

Yamamba [The Mountain Hag] (play) before 1430

Yashima [The Battle of Yashima] (play) before 1430

Sarugaku dangi [An Account of Zeami's Reflections on Art] (treatise) 1430

Shūdōsho [Book for Learning the Way] (treatise) 1430

Ashikari [The Reed Cutter] (play) before 1432

Museki isshi [A Page on the Remnant of a Dream] (treatise) 1432

Kyakuraika [The Flower of Returning] (treatise) 1433

Kintōsho [Writings from the Isle of Gold] (treatise) 1436

*Given the difficulties related to establishing the canon of Zeami's plays and their chronology, authorship of the plays listed here may be uncertain. Some of the plays included are certainly by Zeami, others may be his revisions of earlier works, and still others have simply been attributed to him. Moreover, many dates concerning his plays can only be approximated. Attribution and dating of his treatises, however, is much more assured.

†These comments by Zeami were written down by his son Motoyoshi.

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