Tags: Actor.
Umewaka Minoru I (初世 梅若 実 Shosei Umewaka Minoru July 7 1828-January 19 1909) was a Noh actor of late Edo and early Meiji period Japan. A prolific teacher of Noh in the Meiji period he taught a variety of people including the painter Kōgyo the writer Ezra Pound and the scholar and art collector Ernest Fenollosa. His diary published under the title Umewaka Minoru Nikki spans much of his life and records in great detail his activities and the world of Noh in the Meiji period.
