Kakita Iwane

Kakita Iwane was a playwright of the Crane Clan in the sixth century. He wrote a stunning series of Nō plays about the lives and deaths of the Kami, which reignited interest in the form. Iwane's plays focused on the actors' ability to communicate vast emotional ranges with minimal action and served to differentiate it from its younger, showier rival, the Kabuki theater. Urban bonge began to revere popular Kabuki actors almost as much as the mythical characters they portrayed.