Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu 観丠å°Â次é 信堠1435 or 1450 – July 7, 1516 was a Japanese noh playwright and secondary actor during the Muromachi Era, from the house of Kanze. He was the great nephew of Noh playwright Zeami Motokiyo and is considered one of the last important playwrights of the golden age of Noh. He was the author of around 30 plays.
Among his most famous plays is the play Rashà Âmon, which employed a pun by spelling the title of the Rajà Âmon gate using the kanji shà  for "life" (ç¾ çÂÂéÂÂ) rather than the original jà  for "castle." This reading has left its trace in the title of later stories named Rashà Âmon and the film of Akira Kurosawa.