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The Columbia anthology of modern Japanese drama / J. Thomas Rimer, Mitsuya Mori, & M. Cody Poulton, editors ; cover image, Akita Unaku ; cover and book design, Lisa Hamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese drama--19th century--Translations into English.
- Japanese drama.
- Japanese drama--20th century--Translations into English.
- Japanese drama--21st century--Translations into English.
- Japanese drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- Japanese drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Japanese drama--21st century--History and criticism.
- Theater--Japan--History--19th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--Japan--History--20th century.
- Theater--Japan--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (737 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's best and most representative twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century works in one volume. Divided into six chronological sections: ?The Age of Taisho Drama"; The Tsukiji Tsukiji Little Theater and Its Aftermath"; ?Wartime and Postwar Drama"; ?The 1960's and Underground Theater"; ?The 1980's and Beyond"; and ? Popular Theater," the collection opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji period drama and provides an informal yet complete history of twentieth-century Japanese theater
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Japanese Names
- Introduction: The Prelude to Modern Drama in the Meiji Era (1868-1912)
- PART I. THE AGE OF "TAISHŌ DRAMA"
- Introduction / Poulton, M. Cody
- Kerria Japonica / Kyōka, Izumi
- Father returns / Kan, Kikuchi
- The Skeletons' Dance / Ujaku, Akita
- PART II. THE TSUKIJI LITTLE THEATER AND ITS AFTERMATH
- Introduction / Rimer, J. Thomas
- The Couple Next Door / Hakuchō, Masamune
- A Nero in Skirts / Tomoyoshi, Murayama
- Paper Balloon / Kunio, Kishida
- Fascist Doll / Sakae, Kubo
- Restless night in late spring / Fumiko, Enchi
- Japanese Women Playwrights: From Meiji to the Present / Inoue, Yoshie
- PART III. WARTIME AND POSTWAR DRAMA
- A Woman's Life / Kaoru, Morimoto
- The Man Who Turned into a Stick / Kōbō, Abe
- Ceremonial Clothes / Matsuyo, Akimoto
- Twilight Crane / Junji, Kinoshita
- Education / Chikao, Tanaka
- PART IV. THE 1960's AND UNDERGROUND THEATER
- The Little Match Girl / Minoru, Betsuyaku
- Two Women / Jūrō, Kara
- Poison Boy / Shūji, Terayama
- The Dressing Room: That Which Flows Away Ultimately Becomes Nostalgia / Kunio, Shimizu
- The Earth Station / Shōgo, Ōta
- Living with Father / Hisashi, Inoue
- PART V. THE 1980's AND BEYOND
- Poems for Sale / Hideki, Noda
- Tokyo Notes / Oriza, Hirata
- The Attic / Yōji, Sakate
- Five Days in March / Toshiki, Okada
- PART VI. POPULAR THEATER
- Introduction / Mori, Mitsuya
- Nihonbashi / Kyōka, Izumi
- The Rose of Versailles: A Takarazuka Grand Romantic Play / Shinji, Ueda
- The Sardine Seller's Net of Love / Yukio, Mishima
- Selected Bibliography
- Permissions
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231537131
- 0231537131
- OCLC:
- 879945915
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