Chapter 60
Born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year old Oniyasha has one problem-he doesn’t know what the point of any of it is. Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another, bad? Why do people dance at all? It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come. A fictionalized account of the early life of Zeami Motokiyo (Oniyasha), the founder of modern Noh theater-the world’s oldest surviving theater art-this coming-of-age artist’s journey vividly brings to life a man far ahead of his time during one of Japan’s most culturally and socially vibrant eras.
Chapter 4
Yoshida Yoshio, a boy who has been playing the violin since he was a child in order to live up to his parents' expectations. He feels burdened by this situation and is unable to fit in at his new school, leading a lonely life. One day, Yoshio spots a girl he has never seen before, Amano Tessera, in his classroom. Suspicious of her existence, Yoshio chases after Tessera, but...