Principal Works
*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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