Nōgaku (能楽) is one of the traditional styles of Japanese theater.

It is composed of the lyric drama noh, and the comic theater kyōgen (狂言).

[1] It has influenced the Bunraku, or Japanese puppet theatre as well as Kabuki.

[2] Nōgaku theatre was inscribed in 2008 by UNESCO on the List of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

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