Educational Morsel of the Week (Archive): Nō (能) Porno

First posted on the original website, 111401. Lightly dusted with edit.

For our first Exuberant Calliope EMW, we travel to the dark land of Japan. Japan, as we all know, is a land of mystery, history, and magic. Also, monsters and large robots make up a big population group there. Anyone who watches anime knows this well. Today, however, robots and monsters won't be discussed. We will instead delve into the deep, cavernous realm of Japanese history. More specifically, the history of the well-known and loved art form, Nō Porno.

Nō Porno is a widely noted form of Japanese theater wherein music and lewd but imperceptible movements are used to tell any of a number of story types. Many of these either involve lust, intense desire, or the protagonist's impending insanity and/or battle with supernatural beings. These plays were originally performed for the lords and ladies of feudal Japan, but are still viewed in red light districts across the islands.

Nō Porno first developed in its present form in the 14th and 15th centuries under the distinguished playwrights Kiyotsugu "Schwing" Kanami and his son Motokiyo "Massive Erection" Zeami. During Zeami's lifetime, he wrote many plays that are still performed today, along with several works discussing the production of Nō Porno. Under the patronage of noted pervert and Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Zeami and Nō Porno flourished.

There are five types of Nō Porno, each involving a different type of protagonist. In order, these feature horny gods, horny warriors, horny beautiful women, horny miscellaneous figures, and horny supernatural beings. In each, the protagonist, or shite (仕手) has sexual intercourse with a number of companion characters called tsure (連れ). The shite often appears at the beginning of the play as a normal human, and then in the second half as a ghost or other supernatural being. Somehow, however, the shite's Sudden existence as a ghost does not stop the tsure from fucking and/or sucking.

Throughout, a chorus, or jiutai (地謡), of eight actors narrates, explains the thoughts of stage characters, and performs a terribly complicated choreographed orgy scene every seven minutes.

So there you are, my friends. I hope that your thirst for knowledge is sated. At least until next week's (or whenever I decide to do another) Exuberant Calliope Educational Morsel of the Week.