Question

A youth created by this author quotes the proverb “envy none above you, despise none below” in response to a priest’s compliment about how “remarkably elegant” it is for “such people” to play the flute. This author’s aphorism “When you keep a secret, a flower blooms” appears in a treatise that praises child actors for naturally displaying a form of “mysterious beauty.” (15[1])In this author’s rewrite of a predecessor’s work, two sisters admire the moon’s appearance in their pails of brinewater and mistake a (*) tree for (-5[1])their shared lover. (-5[1])A warrior-turned-priest reconciles with a young noble’s ghost in one of several (10[1])plays (-5[1])by this author set near the Bay of Suma. This (-5[1])author’s revision of Wind in the Pines builds on the work (10[2])of his father, (10[1])with whom he pioneered an austere (10[3])genre (10[1])of masked drama. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this author of Atsumori and (-5[1])son of Kan’ami, the foremost writer of Noh plays. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[11])

ANSWER: Zeami Motokiyo [or Seami Motokiyo; or Kanze Motokiyo; accept names from any set in either order; prompt on Motokiyo; reject “Kan’ami”]
<Literature - World Literature - Drama>
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