The Lady Aoi is a play written by Yukio Mishima in 1954, which appears in his Five Modern Noh Plays. It modernizes the noh drama Aoi no Ue.[1]

The Lady Aoi
Written byYukio Mishima
Original languageJapanese
GenreNoh
SettingA hospital in modern Japan

English Version edit

Donald Keene has translated this play into English.

Notable productions edit

Bahram Beyzai produced this play in Persian in Tehran in 1998.

References edit

  1. ^ Barnes, Nancy J. (1989). "Lady Rokujō's Ghost: Spirit Possession, Buddhism, and Healing in Japanese Literature". Literature and Medicine. 8: 106–121. doi:10.1353/lm.2011.0101. S2CID 932296. Project MUSE 376707.