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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 100% | 11% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
Data
| UW A | Appalachian State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Sorbonne | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa A | Texas A&M B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan State A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A&M A | Rice A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa B | UBC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |