To the Editor of the "Norri-Cuina Dany News"
Sin—A reading of your reviewer's interesting lines in to-day's issue} about the Noh Plays now being put fon locally reminds me of an episode, which I heard a long while ago in Japan, the country of origin of the: art drama, During the Tokugawa Shogunate a feudal Tord governing in the far north had an occasion {o send an envoy to another Daimyo down in the south. "On reaching his destination the envoy found himself quite Ina Mix, for he had much diffeulty: jin carrying on the necessary con versations. So he at last came. the classical style of dialogues adopted partly in the lyrical texts of the Noh Plays. Luckily enough this Proved very helpful jo overcome the dialect difficulty, which was. considerable indeed with the Japanese territory ung out in an extended chain of fair-sized islands, T do nol know of any foreigner, who has yet taken so great an Interest in the Noh Plays as to Venture learning to recite in sing-]song fashion their lyrical texts like most of the Japanese enthusiasts do fat home, often in unison. 'There is no doubt, however, one of the attractive ' features of the ancient showpieces as played abroad would be that the foreigner, who is making scholastic study of' the Japanese language, may see a capital opportunity in them at once to enjoy ant Team the Japanese literature, especially of the classical school.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.