Zeami

• 1. a. b. Another name for Zeami.
• 2. Zeami's patron and a shogun, who met Zeami when he was 17 performing at Yoshimitsu's court.
• 3. The two stanzas spoken by people commenting on the Noh show they just saw have puns in each line, which is why they sound kind of weird in English. For example, in the second stanza, the last pun is on 地唄 jiutai, "noh chorus", and 渋滞 juutai, "traffic".
• 4. An important location in one of Zeami's most famous noh works, Atsumori.
• 5. These are quotes from Zeami's treatises on drama.
• 6. A type of noh where a traveler visits a place and meets a local who tells them a strange, fantastic story that happened there. Then they tell the traveler "I was the person in the story", and vanish.
• 7. This is when Zeami was an adult.
• 8. A treatise on music by Zeami.
• 9. The word here I translated as "not quite over", 生成, "namanari", is also the word for the mask worn by a certain noh character--a woman who is half-beast, filled with rage at her husband's infidelity.
• 10. This line and the next are famous Zeami quotes.
• 11. carefree=のうのうと, "nounou to". Get it?
• 12. This line sounds the same as the first line of this stanza and would be interpreted by the listener in the same way, but the way it's written uses different characters that include the kanji for noh drama and the word for a lead role in noh, so I translated it like this.