Oh-no, the Kanga-Guru – Kazuo Ohno
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Krokodile Dundara has offered to take your Wizard on a genuine, authentic, unlicensed, Outback expedition. As soon as your Wizard has procured the supplies for your expedition, Krokodile Dundara takes you to “The Outback”. Dundara advises that you’ll need some spiritual counsel before you start your adventure. He brings you to Oh-no, the Kanga-Guru. Oh-no, surprisingly is being threatened by a squad of lethal Huntsman Spiders.
Oh-no seems to be surprised by the attack of the Huntsman Spiders, it made him feel unsafe. It’s not what he signed up for when he answered his… spiritual calling. The Kanga Guru sends you to find his sacred Divining Rods.
After saving the Divining Rods from the Bushwhackers and finding the Krokodile Hunter, your group is attacked by Emu Riders. Oh-no reveals that he, Krokodile Dundara, and the Krokodile Hunter are business partners. Krokodile Dundara later reveals the whole quest was a performance for tourists.
Kazuo Ohno (October 27, 1906 – June 1, 2010) was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. He is the author of several books on Butoh, including The Palace Soars through the Sky, Dessin, Words of Workshop, and Food for the Soul. The latter two were published in English as Kazuo Ohno’s World: From Without & Within (2004).
Ohno once said of his work: “The best thing someone can say to me is that while watching my performance they began to cry. It is not important to understand what I am doing; perhaps it is better if they don’t understand, but just respond to the dance.”
Ohno starred in the films O-shi no shozo A Portrait of Mr. O directed by Chiaki Nagano; The Scene of the Soul (1991) by Katsumi Hirano; and the documentary Kazuo Ohno (1995), directed by Daniel Schmid. He also appeared in several films by German director Peter Sempel, most notably in the music film Dandy (1988) alongside Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, and Lene Lovich, among others. He wrote three books on Butoh, including The Palace Soars through the Sky, a collection of essays and photographs; Dessin with drawings and notes on his Butoh creations; Words of Workshop, a collection of lectures given in his workshop; and Food for the Soul, a selection of photography from the 1930s through 1999. The latter two books were combined and published in English as Kazuo Ohno’s World: From Without & Within (2004, Wesleyan University Press). In October 2006, soon after Ohno’s 100th birthday, Kyoto-based publisher Seigensha released a photography book in homage to Ohno featuring the works of Eikoh Hosoe entitled The Butterfly Dream.
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