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was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh.〔 It was written of him that his very presence was an "artistic fact." He is the author of several books on Butoh, including ''The Palace Soars through the Sky'', ''Dessin'', ''Words of Workshop'', and ''Food for the Soul''. The latter two were published in English as ''Kazuo Ohno's World: From Without & Within'' (2004). Ohno once said of his work: "The best thing someone can say to me is that while watching my performance they began to cry. It is not important to understand what I am doing; perhaps it is better if they don't understand, but just respond to the dance."〔Childs, Martin. ("Kazuo Ohno: Dancer who co-founded the modern Butoh style and brought it to the world stage" ), ''The Independent'', July 7, 2010.〕 ==Early life== The son of a fisherman and a mother who was an expert in European cuisine, Ohno was born in Hakodate City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, on October 27 in 1906. He demonstrated an aptitude for athletics in junior high school and graduated from an athletic college in 1929, teaching physical education at a Christian high school. In 1933, Ohno began studying with Japanese modern dance pioneers Baku Ishii and Takaya Eguchi, which qualified him to teach dance at the Soshin Girls' School in Yokohama, from which he retired in 1980. In 1938, Ohno was drafted into the Japanese Army as a lieutenant, and later rose to captain. He fought in China and New Guinea, where he was captured and interned by the Australians as a POW.〔 The war and its horrors provided him with inspiration for some of his later works, such as'' Jellyfish Dance'', thought to be a meditation on the burials at sea he had observed on board the ship transporting soldiers back to Japan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kazuo Ohno」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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