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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.” 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 their shared lover. A warrior-turned-priest reconciles with a young noble’s ghost in one of several plays 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[1])of his father, (10[1])with whom he pioneered an austere genre of masked drama. For 10 points, name this author of Atsumori and son of Kan’ami, the foremost writer of Noh plays. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange111-5
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut12210
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere12510
Rayton LinTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers15310
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 15410

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