Komparu Zempo

Komparu Zempo (金春 禅鳳 1454-1520 ? ) was a Japanese Noh actor and playwright of the Komparu school. He was the grandson of Komparu Zenchiku. Zempo'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 (Zempo 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; there is a kabuki adaptation of this and is well-known abroad)
 * Ikuta Atsumori (生田敦盛)
 * Kamo (賀茂)
 * Tōbōsaku (東方朔)

Treatises

 * Mōtanshichinshō (1455)