Chifumi Shimazaki worked as a translator, lecturer, script writer and marketing researcher, and studied Noh as a performing art under leading Noh actors and musicians for more than fifty years.

The great advantage of Shimazaki's translations is that an English reader now has the wherewithal to begin to decode these beautiful works;... a labor of love and careful scholarship.(Journal of Asian Studies)

Chifumi Shimazaki worked as a translator, lecturer, script writer and marketing researcher, and studied Noh as a performing art under leading Noh actors and musicians for more than fifty years.

The great advantage of Shimazaki's translations is that an English reader now has the wherewithal to begin to decode these beautiful works;... a labor of love and careful scholarship.(Journal of Asian Studies)

Chifumi Shimazaki worked as a translator, lecturer, script writer and marketing researcher, and studied Noh as a performing art under leading Noh actors and musicians for more than fifty years.

The great advantage of Shimazaki's translations is that an English reader now has the wherewithal to begin to decode these beautiful works;... a labor of love and careful scholarship.(Journal of Asian Studies)