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Author : James T. Araki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520332966
A history of Kowaka, the 16th century ballad-drama, including stylistic analysis and explication of the texts, with examples, plus two complete librettos.
Author : James T. Araki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Susan M. Asai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781440826375
Nomai dance drama, an artistic expression combining sacred, communal, economic, and cultural spheres of community life in the district of Higashidorimura, is a performing tradition that provides an identity to agriculturally based villages. It has retained features characteristic of the music, drama, and sacred practices of medieval Japan. N=omai singing exhibits traits linked to Buddhist chanting. The instrumental music originates from folk Shinto. This study highlights the social and cultural value n=omaii has for the residents in villages that perform it by providing the historical context in which it is examined, as well as its current performance practices. As this work explores the aspects of agricultural Japanese society, revealed through a dance drama, it will appeal to music and drama scholars as well as students of Japanese culture and history. After establishing the historical lens from which to view n^D=omai drama, the theatrical and musical aspects are discussed in detail. Photographs and musical examples enhance this thorough, well-organized study.
Author : Elizabeth Oyler
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824829220
Investigates some historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan's age of the warriors, is famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike).
Author : William E. Deal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195331264
This book is an introduction the Japanese history, culture, and society from 1185 - the beginning of the Kamakura period - through the end of the Edo period in 1868.
Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0719019141
Author : J. I. Crump,William P. Malm
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472038022
Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas is the result of a conference on the relations between Chinese and Japanese music-drama held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on October 1–4, 1971. In addition to the Association for Asian Studies, four U-M departments participated in the conference: the Center for Japanese Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the School of Music, and the Speech Department. One important inspiration for the creation of such an interdisciplinary conference was the fact that each participant had found, after years of individual research on music-drama in East Asia, consistent frustration caused by attempts to deal on their own with multiple cultural and technical problems. Another motivating force was an awareness among many members of the four disciplines involved that the topic is in fact one of the largest untouched fields of scholarly endeavor in both Asian and theatrical studies. The collection opens with J. I. Crump’s exploration of the Ming commentators who began to subject Yüan musical drama to the same critiques as other literature from the past. In the second chapter, Rulan Chao Pian looks to the structure of arias in Peking Opera for clues about what distinguishes this art form. William P. Malm turns to three key sources for the performance conventions of Japanese Noh drama to glean any Sino-Japanese music relationships that exist in technical terms and practices. In the fourth essay, Carl Sesar analyzes a Noh play that stages the tension between Chinese influence and Japanese originality. Roy E Teele concludes the volume with a formal study of Noh play structure to assess lineages of influence from Chinese dramatic forms. After each contribution, the editors print a transcript of the conference participants’ discussion of that paper, providing the reader with a detailed and nuanced view of how the contributors understood and responded to each other’s work.
Author : Frank Joseph Shulman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135158163
First Published in 1971. This annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations on Japan and Korea grew out of a decision to expand and bring up to date an earlier list entitled Unpublished Doctoral Dissertations Relating to Japan, Accepted in the Universities of Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1946-1963, compiled by Peter Cornwall and issued by the Center for Japanese Studies in 1965.
Author : Benito Ortolani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0691043337
From ancient ritualistic practices to modern dance theatre, this study provides concise summaries of all major theatrical art forms in Japan. It situates each genre in its particular social and cultural contexts, describing in detail staging, costumes, repertory and noteworthy actors.
Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231504539
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and the Kokinshu. He preserves his comprehensive survey of secular and religious anecdotes (setsuwa) as well as classical poems with extensive commentary. He features no drama; selections from influential war epics; and notable essays on poetry, fiction, history, and religion. Texts are interwoven to bring into focus common themes, styles, and allusions while inviting comparison and debate. The result is a rich encounter with ancient and medieval Japanese culture and history. Each text and genre is enhanced by extensive introductions that provide sociopolitical and cultural context. The anthology is organized by period, genre, and topic—an instructor-friendly structure—and a comprehensive bibliography guides readers toward further study. Praise for Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 "Haruo Shirane has done a splendid job at this herculean task."—Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia "A comprehensive and innovative anthology.... All of the introductions are excellent."—Journal of Asian Studies "One of those impressive, erudite, must-have titles for anyone interested in Asian literature."—Bloomsbury Review "An anthology that comprises superb translations of an exceptionally wide range of texts.... Highly recommended."—Choice "A wealth of material."—Monumenta Nipponica
Author : Barbara E. Thornbury
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780939512119
The aim of this book is to show that seemingly illogical double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku is a surviving element of what was once a complex and coherent structure based on a traditional performance calendar. To show how the calendar function and what Sukeroku's double identity signifies, the book is divided into two parts. Part One studies the structure of Edo kabuki. The first chapter, which outlines that structure, is based for the most part on writings of the Tokugawa period. The second chapter then looks at the concepts of sekai, "tradition," and shuko, "innovation." Kabuki was the product of material that had become a familiar part of Japanese culture by repeated use and dramatization over long periods of time, starting before kabuki began, and material that was relatively new and was used to transform the older, set material. The double identity in Sukeroku came about as a result of this interplay between what was received by way of traditional and what was added by way of innovation. Part Two considers the significance of the double identity. The author concludes that Sukeroku's double identity gave Edo audiences a hero who was an idealization of the contemporary Tokugawa townsman and at the same time a transformation of a samurai god-hero of the past. The first chapter of Part Two traces the development of Sukeroku's Soga Goro/samurai identity, from its origins in the early dramatic forms of no, kowaka, and ko-joruri, to the representation of Soga Goro in kabuki by Ichikawa Danjuro I. The seconds then looks at the transformation of Soga Gorointo Sukeroku by discussing the origins of Sukeroku and its introductions to Edo kabuki by Ichikawa Danjuro I and his son, Danjuro II, since their work was the basis of all later developments.
Author : George Elison,Bardwell L. Smith
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824844929
Author : Helen Hardacre,Adam L Kern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004644847
These essays on Meiji Japan, written by scholars from nine nations, reflect a determination to destabilize existing paradigms in the social sciences and humanities, in favor of a multiplicity of perspectives that privilege subjectivity and the inclusion of non-elite groups.
Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442239111
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre is the only dictionary that offers detailed comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, people, and plays in the four principal traditional Japanese theatrical forms—nō, kyōgen, bunraku, and kabuki—supplemented with individual historical essays on each form. This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to: a chronology; introductory essay; appendixes; an extensive bibliography; over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important terms; brief biographies of the leading artists and writers; and plot summaries of significant plays. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Japanese theatre.
Author : Jacob Raz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004658257