[1] Motoshige had a controversial relationship with his uncle Zeami Motokiyo, the best-remembered of the Kanze playwrights.

[1] In 1432, Zeami's son and chosen successor Motomasa died suddenly, leaving Motoshige to succeed the troupe in his place the following year.

The shogun attended and the festival lasted for three days and featured 29 plays.

The name takes the last syllable of "Kanzeon," the bodhisattva of compassion,[2] and adds the first two syllables of the name adopted by all members of the Jishū (時宗) sect of Buddhism, amidabutsu, or the Japanese pronunciation of Amitābha, the principal Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism.

By the time he died, noh was well on its way to becoming an art form identified with the samurai class.