262 Muromachi Period
will be inferior. The actor should realize that yūgen is attained when all different forms of visual and aural expression are beautiful. It is when the actor himself has worked out these principles and made himself their master that he may be said to have entered the realm of yūgen. If he fails to work out these principles for himself, he will not master them, and however much he may aspire to attain yūgen, he will never in all his life do so.
Translated by Ryusaku Tsunoda and Donald Keene
