Noh Yugen

myth:noh_yugen

Zeami's art rests on yugen — the deep, dim, mysterious grace of what is only half-revealed — and on the conviction that the suggested and the unspoken hold more than the shown, that what is left unsaid is the very heart of the thing. It is the aesthetic on which this whole archive is founded: meaning that lives not in the spoken word but in the unspoken relation around it — a word that simply IS, and means only through what surrounds it. — Japanese aesthetics (reflexive)