Konparu Zenpō

Konparu Zenpō (金春 禅鳳, 1454–1520?) was a Japanese Noh actor and playwright of the Konparu school. He was the grandson of Konparu Zenchiku. Zenpō's plays were more popular and dramatic, novel and crowd-pleasing with large casts and more elaborate effects and sets, than the plays of his grandfather's, or his great-grandfather Zeami's, although he did have an appreciation of yugen and wabi (Zenpō was a pupil of Shuko and quoted him as saying "The moon not glimpsed through rifts in clouds holds no interest").

Plays

• Arashiyama (嵐山)
• Hatsuyuki ("Virgin Snow" or "First Snow"; 初雪; written in the yugen Zenchiku style)
• Ikarikazuki ("The Anchor Draping"; 碇潜)
• Ikkaku sennin ("One-Horned Wizard"; 一角仙人; this Noh inspired the kabuki play Narukami)
• Ikuta Atsumori (生田敦盛)
• Kamo (賀茂)
• Tōbōsaku (東方朔)

Treatises

• Mōtanshichinshō (1455)

• "How to Write a Noh Play; Zeami's Sando", by Shelley Fenno Quinn. Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Spring, 1993), pp. 53-88.