Like Clouds or Mists : Studies and Translations of No Plays of the Genpei War / edited by Elizabeth A. Oyler and Michael Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oyler, Elizabeth A., editor.

Watson, Michael, 1970- editor.

Series:

Cornell East Asia series ; 169.

Cornell East Asia Series ; 169

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nō plays--History and criticism.

Nō plays.

War and literature.

Japan--History--Gempei Wars, 1180-1185--Literature and the war.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University East Asia Program, [2013]

Summary:

This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. Essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the Giō cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the capital; the flight of the Heike and the battle of Ichi-no-tani; and the aftermath of the war. Each event features a series of one to three plays preceded by essays.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

1 Introduction

2 Zeami, A Wandering Ghost, and the Lotus Sutra: The Story of Giō and Hotoke from Heike Monogatari to Nō

3 Giō

4 Hotoke no hara (Buddha Field)

5 How Giō Saves Her Father’s Life: Innovations to the Giō Legend in Bangai Nō

6 Rō-Giō (Giō at the Prison)

7 The Battle of Tonamiyama in Bangai Nō

8 Kiso

9 Kurikara otoshi (The Fall from Kurikara)

10 Sanemori: Departure from Oral Narrative

11 Sanemori

12 Genzai Sanemori

13 Shunzei Tadanori: Its Background and Related Plays

14 Shunzei Tadanori

15 Kiyotsune

16 Preachers and Playwrights: Ikuta Atsumori and the Roots of Nō

17 Ikuta Atsumori

18 Ko Atsumori

19 The Heike, the Nō, and Kyōgen Zatō Plays

20 Nasu (Kyōgen)

21 The Nō Play Shigehira

22 Shigehira

23 Morihisa and the Cult of Kannon at Kiyomizudera

24 Performing Kannon’s Grace: The Nō Morihisa

25 Morihisa

26 Genre and the Heike Plays in Zeami’s Go on

27 Rokudai no utai (The Song about Rokudai)

28 Nō as Political Allegory: The Case of Haku Rakuten

29 Haku Rakuten

30 EPILOGUE The Tale of the Heike in the Theater of the Twentieth Century: Three Examples

Appendix Nō Plays of the Genpei War, A Finding List

Introduction

Part A Plays listed in the order of episodes in the Kakuichi-bon Heike monogatari

Part B Plays listed in alphabetical order, with bibliography and notes on selected plays

Works Cited

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781942242598

194224259X

OCLC:

927384799