Widely recognized as the standard history of Japanese theatre for Western readers, this work by Benito Ortolani is now available for the first time in paperback. From ancient folk and ritual performances to modern dance theatre, it provides concise summaries about each major theatrical form, situating the genre in its particular social, political, and cultural contexts and integrating a vast array of detail on such topics as staging, costuming, masks and properties, repertory, acting techniques, and noteworthy actors. Complete with illustrations and an extensive bibliography, this book serves undergraduates and specialists both as a reference and as a cultural history of Japan seen from the perspective of the performing arts.
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Outlines the current knowledge in the West about the history and development of Japanese theatre, giving priority to areas which are less known or for which satisfactory syntheses either do not exist or are hard to find, such as the period of the origins, kagura, gigaku, and the origins and theories of the no. A chapter overviewing the scholarship in western languages provides references to more comprehensive treatment of the areas covered only lightly here. Much of the information is drawn from research in Japanese, but the Japanese quotations are consigned to chapter-end notes. Includes a glossary and 70 b&w illustrations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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The reader will find no fuller and more informed account of the complexities of Japanese theatre history and of the cultural matrices from which Japan's various theatre forms grew, than in this admirable scholarly work. -- James R. Brandon, Monumenta Nipponica
The book represents the summation of a lifetime's work by a meticulous teacher and scholar whose fascination with his subject now allows him to share his knowledge, and his enthusiasms, with a larger audience. -- J. Thomas Rimer, Asian Theatre Journal
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This volume somehow manages to cover the whole complex history of Japanese theatre in a single volume. It has an excellent glossary and a well-organized bibliography. An useful introduction to Japanese theatre both for the serious student and for the neophyte. Extremely useful for courses in Asian Theatre or Japanese Culture.
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The Japanese contribution to theatre, which is one of the riches and most original in the world, had a relatively late start. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sarugaku tradition, und shushi, bugaku costumes, rokurin ichiro, shin sarugaku, teatro giapponese, name kagura, bugaku masks, shishi kagura, shishi tradition, miko kagura, sarugaku performers, leftist companies, shingeki companies, yamabushi kagura, shingeki actors, sarugaku actors, kabuki mono, sarugaku troupes, onna kabuki, shite role, aragoto style, gigaku masks, wakashu kabuki, kabuki world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Meiji Restoration, Imperial Theatre, New York, One Dewdrop, Osanai Kaoru, Honda Yasuji, Suzuki Tadashi, Kishida Kunio, The Essence of Kabuki, The Post-Shingeki Theatre Movement, Das Kabukitheater, Funa Benkei, Grand Theatre, Matsui Sumako, Nagoya Sanza, Okura Toraaki, Satoh Makoto, Shuji Terayama, Takeda Izumo, The Early Japanese Puppet Drama, Waseda Little Theatre, Waseda University, Zeami's Style, Aspects of the Performing Arts New!
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The Japanese contribution to theatre, which is one of the riches and most original in the world, had a relatively late start. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sarugaku tradition, und shushi, bugaku costumes, rokurin ichiro, shin sarugaku, teatro giapponese, name kagura, bugaku masks, shishi kagura, shishi tradition, miko kagura, sarugaku performers, leftist companies, shingeki companies, yamabushi kagura, shingeki actors, sarugaku actors, kabuki mono, sarugaku troupes, onna kabuki, shite role, aragoto style, gigaku masks, wakashu kabuki, kabuki world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Meiji Restoration, Imperial Theatre, New York, One Dewdrop, Osanai Kaoru, Honda Yasuji, Suzuki Tadashi, Kishida Kunio, The Essence of Kabuki, The Post-Shingeki Theatre Movement, Das Kabukitheater, Funa Benkei, Grand Theatre, Matsui Sumako, Nagoya Sanza, Okura Toraaki, Satoh Makoto, Shuji Terayama, Takeda Izumo, The Early Japanese Puppet Drama, Waseda Little Theatre, Waseda University, Zeami's Style, Aspects of the Performing Arts New!
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- Literary and Art Theories in Japan (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) by Makoto Ueda on 4 pages
- Six Circles, One Dewdrop. The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku by Arthur H. Thornhill on 4 pages
- A History of Japanese Music by Eta Harich-Schneider on page 160, page 289, and Back Matter
- Kabuki: Five Classic Plays (Accepted Into the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works,) by James R. Brandon on page 207, page 290, and Back Matter
- The Kabuki Theatre (East West Center Book) by E Ernst on page 207, page 287, and Back Matter
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- Secrecy in Japanese Arts: "Secret Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge by Maki Isaka Morinaga on 5 pages
- Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater (California Studies in Twentieth Century Music) by W. Anthony Sheppard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism by Ayako Kano in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 by Patricia Sieber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism by Ayako Kano in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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