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Opening ceremony of Tokyo Skytree Town

TOKYO, Japan - Nomura Mansai gives a Japanese ''kyogen'' comic performance during an opening ceremony for Tokyo Skytree Town, the newly completed commercial complex surrounding the 634-meter-high Tokyo Skytree, at the 350-meter observation deck of the tower in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 14, 2012, ahead of the tower's grand opening on May 22. (Pool photo)

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Opening ceremony of Tokyo Skytree Town

TOKYO, Japan - Nomura Mansai gives a Japanese ''kyogen'' comic performance during an opening ceremony for Tokyo Skytree Town, the newly completed commercial complex surrounding the 634-meter-high Tokyo Skytree, at the 350-meter observation deck of the tower in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 14, 2012, ahead of the tower's grand opening on May 22. (Pool photo)

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Diplomats enjoy Kyogen performance at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Nomura Mansai gives a comical Japanese Kyogen performance in the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold Library at the U.N. headquarters in New York on June 6 for foreign diplomats from around the world. Other members of the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company, headed by Nomura Mansaku, a Living National Treasure, also joined the performance.

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Nomura Mansai

Nomura Mansai, Noh farce actor (photo taken on May 27, 2002)

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Nomura Mansai supervises Tokyo theater

TOKYO, Japan - Nomura Mansai, 36, a Noh comedy performer, has served as supervisor of Tokyo's Setagaya public theater since Aug. 1.

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Diplomats enjoy Kyogen performance at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Nomura Mansai gives a comical Japanese Kyogen performance in the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold Library at the U.N. headquarters in New York on June 6 for foreign diplomats from around the world. Other members of the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company, headed by Nomura Mansaku, a Living National Treasure, also joined the performance. (Kyodo)

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Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai performs new drama with children

Popular actor Nomura Mansai (L) performs in a new drama of the traditional Kyogen comic play, based on regional mythology, at an open-air stage in the western Japan city of Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, together with local children on May 4, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai performs new drama with children

Popular actor Nomura Mansai (3rd from R) performs in a new drama of the traditional Kyogen comic play, based on regional mythology, at an open-air stage in the western Japan city of Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, together with local children on May 4, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo stock market's last trading day of 2019

Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai (C) rings the bell during a Tokyo Stock Exchange ceremony marking the end of the 2019 trading on Dec. 30, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo stock market's last trading day of 2019

Japan Exchange Group Inc. CEO Akira Kiyota (2nd from L) and Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai (far R) attend a Tokyo Stock Exchange ceremony marking the end of the 2019 trading on Dec. 30, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo stock market's last trading day of 2019

Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai attends a Tokyo Stock Exchange ceremony marking the end of the 2019 trading on Dec. 30, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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One year to 2020 Tokyo Olympics

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (C) meets in Tokyo on July 24, 2019, with Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai (R), who will orchestrate the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Seated next to Bach is Yoshiro Mori, former Japanese prime minister and head of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee. The day marked the start of the one-year countdown to the opening of the Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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G-20 summit in Osaka

Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai performs before world leaders attending a Group of 20 summit in Osaka, western Japan, on June 28, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Production of Tokyo 2020 ceremonies

Nomura Mansai (C), an actor in Japan's "kyogen" traditional theater, filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki (L) and creative director Hiroshi Sasaki pose after a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2018. Headed by Mansai, the three will take charge of producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Production of Tokyo 2020 ceremonies

Nomura Mansai (C), an actor in Japan's "kyogen" traditional theater, filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki (L) and creative director Hiroshi Sasaki pose after a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2018. Headed by Mansai, the three will take charge of producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Production of Tokyo 2020 ceremonies

Nomura Mansai (C), an actor in Japan's "kyogen" traditional theater, filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki (L) and creative director Hiroshi Sasaki pose after a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2018. Headed by Mansai, the three will take charge of producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Production of Tokyo 2020 ceremonies

Nomura Mansai, an actor in Japan's "kyogen" traditional theater, speaks to the press in Tokyo on July 31, 2018, after he was appointed the previous day by the organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Games to oversee the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Production of Tokyo 2020 ceremonies

(From R) Nomura Mansai, an actor in Japan's "kyogen" traditional theater, filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki and creative director Hiroshi Sasaki attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2018. Headed by Mansai, the three will take charge of producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nomura Mansai supervises Tokyo theater

TOKYO, Japan - Nomura Mansai, 36, a Noh comedy performer, has served as supervisor of Tokyo's Setagaya public theater since Aug. 1. (Kyodo)