One can touch down almost anywhere in a noh play and find memory. It might be the collective memory of folklore and allusion, or the hinge of memory that provokes longing or reawakens grief, it could be the offhand comment of a wandering priest that calls forth recollection of a tragedy or an adventure in a humble villager, it could be a prison of memory that holds in stasis the mind of a ghost. How, in specific lexical terms, is memory represented and deployed in the warrior plays of the noh repertory?
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