The N Plays Of Japan
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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Author | : Haruo Shirane |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231152815 |
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"Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.
Noh Plays of Japan
Author | : Arthur Waley |
Publsiher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781462903634 |
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The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit and also provide the reader with an understanding of a unique theatre art and important insights into the cultural, spiritual and artistic traditions of Japan. The Noh Plays of Japan, first published in 1921 and justly famous for more than three-quarters of a century, established the Noh play for the Western reader as beautiful literature. It contains Arthur Waley's exquisite translations of nineteen plays and summaries of sixteen more, together with a revealing introductory essay that furnishes the background for a clear understanding and a genuine appreciation of the Noh as a highly significant dramatic form. Noh plays live on as a magnificent artistic heritage handed down from the high culture of medieval Japan. Among the major types of Japanese drama, the Noh, which is often called the classical theatre of Japan, has had perhaps the greatest attraction for the West. Introduced to Europe and America through the translations of Arthur Waley and Ezra Pound, it found an ardent admirer in William Butler Yeats, who described it as a form of drama "distinguished, indirect, and symbolic" and created plays in its image.
The Noh Theatre of Japan
Author | : Ernest Fenollosa,Ezra Pound |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780486436999 |
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This outstanding, scholarly work by an American-born authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, edited and translated by one of the most ambitious, influential, and innovative poets of the first half of the 20th century, provides Western readers with a valuable interpretation of an important aspect of Japanese culture. In addition to the complete translations of 15 plays, the text discusses historical background and development of the Noh theater.
A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre
Author | : Noel John Pinnington |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9783030061401 |
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This book traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's Early Nō Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyōgen, which has often been left in noh's shadow. It is based on contemporary research in Japan, Asia, Europe and America, and embraces current ideas of theatre history, providing a richly contextualized account which looks closely at theatrical forms and genres as they arose. The masked drama of noh, with its ghosts, chanting and music, and its use in Japanese films, has been the object of modern international interest. However, audiences are often confused as to what noh actually is. This book attempts to answer where noh came from, what it was like in its day, and what it was for. To that end, it contains sections which discuss a number of prominent noh plays in their period and challenges established approaches. It also contains the first detailed study in English of the kyōgen repertoire of the sixteenth-century.
Masterpieces of Chikamatsu
Author | : Robert Nichols |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2010-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781136913426 |
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This is a selection of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists. Master of the marionette and popular dramas, he had, until the publication of this book, remained unknown to western readers owing to the difficulty of translating the work into English. The introduction provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Japanese drama which will assist the reader in better understanding the plays.
Noh Or Accomplishment
Author | : Ernest Fenollosa,Ezra Pound |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : OSU:32435017834177 |
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The authors offer a detailed examination and explanation of Noh, the first great Japanese theatrical form. The spirit is at the essence of Noh, as Kannami Kiyotsugu created the form in the late-fourteenth century by combining elements from Japanese theater with Zen Buddhism. The authors present the history, explain the nuances, and even provide samples of these Noh plays.
The N Plays of Japan
Author | : Arthur Waley |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : EAN:4057664635754 |
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The Nō Plays of Japan is an anthology by Arthur Waley. It covers the traditional No plays of Japan where subjects such as insanity and obsession flourish along with demons, gods and beautiful women.
A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
Author | : Christmas Humphreys |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2005-11-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781135797454 |
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A dictionary and a glossary of terms plus brief biographies of eminent Buddhists and scholars from both East and West.