Question

In kabuki plays, actors can dramatically enter and exit via a trapdoor in a walkway named for these objects, which runs directly through the audience. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects. A Zeami Motokiyo treatise titled for the “Transmission” of these objects compares them to the ideal audience relationship cultivated by certain performers.
ANSWER: flowers [or hana; accept Fūshikaden or Kadensho]
[10e] Zeami’s Transmission of the Flower centers on this Japanese dramatic genre, which includes his play Matsukaze. Unlike kabuki and bunraku, this genre features human actors wearing stylized masks.
ANSWER: noh [or nohgaku]
[10m] In the play Sakuragawa, attributed to Zeami, one of these people meets a madwoman who gathers cherry blossoms because they evoke her missing son. One of these people tries to shrink his nose in an Akutagawa short story.
ANSWER: Buddhist monks [or Buddhist priests; prompt on Buddhists]
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