What does Zeami's Shudosho say about jo-ha-kyu, as read in a public translation, and how does the translator frame it?
In Bohner's 1961 German translation of Zeami's Shudosho, jo-ha-kyu allocates a day's programme: the waki noh is jo, pieces two to four are ha and the fifth is kyu; when more pieces are ordered, the troupe should stretch jo-ha-kyu across the whole performance. Bohner's own introduction glosses all noh as a three- or five-part unfolding (translator's interpretation, not Zeami's text).
In Bohner's 1961 German translation of Zeami's Shudosho, jo-ha-kyu allocates a day's programme: the waki noh is jo, pieces two to four are ha and the fifth is kyu; when more pieces are ordered, the troupe should stretch jo-ha-kyu across the whole performance. Bohner's own introduction glosses all noh as a three- or five-part unfolding (translator's interpretation, not Zeami's text).
Curator qualifications: Sources read 2026-10-22; no corpus counted. OCR text; translation, not the Japanese original; Fushikaden cross-check (S17) not re-read.
Limitations: Sources read 2026-10-22; no corpus counted.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] In Bohner's 1961 German translation of Zeami's Shudosho, jo-ha-kyu allocates a day's programme: the waki noh is jo, pieces two to four are ha and the fifth is kyu; when more pieces are ordered, the troupe should stretch jo-ha-kyu across the whole performance. Bohner's own introduction glosses all noh as a three- or five-part unfolding (translator's interpretation, not Zeami's text). · locator: archive.org SeamiSchriften djvu.txt (OCR of Bohner 1961), Shudosho ch. VIII and translator introduction source
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