However, when he was 20 years old he watched the Shimai (Noh dance in plain cloths) called 'Fujito' performed by Hisao KANZE and was shocked by 'the stage in which as if the hell was surging.'
しかし20歳の時、観世寿夫による仕舞「藤戸」を見て、「地獄がせりあがってくるような」舞台に衝撃を受けた。