The Noh drama : ten plays from the Japanese / selected and translated by the special Noh Committee, Japanese Classics translation Committee, Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai.

Series:

UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nō plays--Translations into English.

Nō plays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Rutland, Vt. : C. E. Tuttle, 1985, c1955.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

NOH as an independent and original art form?ultimately destined to supersedethe earlier Dengaku, Sarugaku and other song-dances?incorporates the mostsignificant elements of the former and especially of the Kusemai (tune dance).With it a new literary form may be said to have been created. The inventionof Noh is attributed to Kwannami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384), a distinguished actorand writer of Sarugaku and to his son Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), who developedand refined the art under the patronage of Yoshimitsu, the third Ashikagashogun. In addition to his dramatic

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; General Introduction; Introduction; TAKASAGO; TAMURA; SANEMORI; KIYOTSUNE; TOBOKU; IZUTSU (Well-Curb); EGUCHI; BASHO; SUMIDAGAWA (The Sumida River); FUNA-BENKEI (Benkei in the Boat); Index

Notes:

Previously published as: Japanese Noh drama, 1955.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4629-0456-4

OCLC:

823388868