Oshima Noh Theatre

The Oshima Noh Theatre is based in the Kita school, one of the five main actor noh schools, and features members of the Oshima family, one of the Kita school’s most active traditional noh families. Masanobu Oshima, an important intangible cultural asset as designated by the Japanese government, headed both productions of Pagoda along with his two adult children, Kinue Oshima—one of the few yet highly respected professional female performers in the noh world (and the only female professional performer in the Kita school), and Teruhisa Oshima—an emerging new acting voice in the Kita school in 2009 and now very well-established in the noh world.