article_snippet: At the Kiyomizu-dera temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site built in 780 on a tree-lined hill overlooking the city, Mrs Obama watched local college students enacting a Noh performance, a classical style of Japanese musical drama using ornate costumes and masks to play the roles of women, ghosts and various other characters.
article_snippet: Local college students in kimono performed a brief piece of Noh, a classical Japanese musical drama that usually employs elaborate costumes and stylized masks to symbolize roles of women, ghosts and other characters.
article_snippet: Special attention: Mrs Obama and the group quietly watched as a student put on a Noh performance in front of the vista overlooked by the Kiyomizu-dera temple .
article_snippet: the group quietly watched as a student put on a Noh performance in front of the vista overlooked by the Kiyomizu-dera temple the Kiyomizu-dera temple .