Noh

American  

[noh] / noʊ /

noun

1. a genre of traditional Japanese musical theater featuring chants, dancing, and masks, and characterized by heroic themes.

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Noh British  

/ nəʊ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of No 1

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Example Sentences

The extraordinary scene with the medium in “Rashomon” stems directly from Noh, with the voice of the dead nobleman distorted into a screeching, growling outburst.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The characters’ inexpressive faces are closer to Noh theater than to the Globe.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

Then again, how important is the gender of the Madwoman, which I have sung, in “Curlew River”? Britten uses the ritual resources of Japanese Noh theater to create a sort of distancing.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2023

Noh, who had a second consecutive over-par around at 73 to fall out of contention.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2023

But he wished he told her to become a player of old women on the Noh stage.

From Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa by Pound, Ezra