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When Yoko Layer began her apprenticeship in Japan’s venerable world of Noh theater five years ago, she knew she was up against 650 years of male domination. But the tall and tenacious 38 year old, who trained for years as a Method actor in Tokyo and Seattle, says she has found her way back to her Japanese roots with Noh despite being a woman. “A few male Noh actors have told me outright that if women are in Noh, it’s not Noh theater,” she says. “I wanted to ask them, ‘Then why do you have so many female students?’ But I just kept quiet.”

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About 200 women are registered professionals, members of the 30 to 50 patrilineal family troupes that compose the five Noh schools. But unlike most of their 1,200 male Noh colleagues, who debuted on the stage at about 4, many of these women have trained only since their 30s. Their wider acceptance has corresponded largely to the country’s faltering economy, beginning in the early 1990s. Noh theater has been plagued by a decline in students and a lack of patronage, and as young men in Noh families have begun to opt for secure office jobs over family tradition, women have stepped in to fill their roles. The move mirrors Japanese women’s entry into other traditionally male fields, including politics and train conducting.