TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abun,Yasuda
AU  - Brandon,James R.
AU  - Genshichi,Tsuuchi
AU  - Hanemon,Tsuuchi
AU  - Hanjurō,Tsuuchi
AU  - Itcho,Asada
AU  - Jihei Ii,Tsuuchi
AU  - Jisuke Ii,Sakurada
AU  - Mansuke,Nakada
AU  - Namboku Iv,Tsuruya
AU  - Namiki,Geiji
AU  - Namiki,Sōsuke
AU  - Sōhzō I,Namiki
TI  - Kabuki: Five Classic Plays
SN  - 9780824842833
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - DRAMA / Asian / Japanese
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustration Credits --; Preface to the Paperback Edition --; Preface --; Introduction --; Sukeroku: Flower of Edo SUKEROKU YUKARI NO EDO ZAKURA --; Saint Narukami and the God Fudō NARUKAMI FUDŌ KITAYAMA ZAKURA --; Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani ICHINOTANI FUTABA GUNKI --; Love Letter from the Licensed Quarter KURUWA BUNSHÒ --; The Scarlet Princess of Edo SAKURA HIME AZUMA BUNSHŌ --; Appendix A Sound Effects: Ki patterns --; Appendix B Sound Effects: Tsuke patterns --; Appendix C Geza Music Cues --; Glossary --; Selective Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - While its actors made their entrace down the Flower Way over three hundred years ago, little of kabuki's repertory has been available to English readers. Not only are adequate translations difficult to produce, but also because the spoken parts of the drama constitute but a portion of that grand spectacle, English renderings often have an elliptical quality.These five plays, however, were translated from tapes made by James Brandon at actual performances, imparting to them an unusual immediacy. The superb translations are further enhanced by detailed commentary and stage directions that reflect music and sound effects as well as positions of actors on stage and their stylized gestures and posturing, all of which are such a vital part of a live performance. A concise introduction includes the history of kabuki, its religious background and ties with prostitution, its themes and playwriting systems, and its performance conventions, actors, music, and dance. Appendixes provide a fascinating focus on various sound effects and music cues in performance. More than one hundred production photographs vividly convey the action and emotion of one of the world's greatest stage arts. First published in 1975, this volume remains a classic.A reprint to the 1975 edition. Accepted into the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Japanese Series
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824842833
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824842833
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824842833/original
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