Silence reigns in the auditorium. Expressing the essence of Noh, Noboru Yasuda performs “Yume-Juya (Ten Nights of Dreams) ” by Soseki Natsume. Yasuda eyes that the ability to foresee the future which the Japanese had once has been lost, and raises the issue at TEDxSeeds. Yasuda expounds that we will regain “the ability to see” by staying away from the flood of stimulation and the convenience of modern life and instead, by having a lesson and learning from the Japanese classics.

translated by Salim Imee