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024 7 _a10.7312/shim17226
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035 _a(DE-B1597)458502
035 _a(OCoLC)949324750
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072 7 _aLIT008030
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082 0 4 _a792.0952
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aShimazaki, Satoko
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEdo Kabuki in Transition :
_bFrom the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost /
_cSatoko Shimazaki.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (392 p.) :
_b50 b&w illustrations
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tA Note to the Reader --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I. The Birth of Edo Kabuki --
_t1. Presenting the Past --
_tPart II. The Beginning of the End of Edo Kabuki: Yotsuya kaidan in 1825 --
_t2. Overturning the World --
_t3. Shades of Jealousy --
_t4. The End of the World --
_tPart III. The Modern Rebirth of Kabuki --
_t5. Another History --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSatoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding of early modern kabuki as a subversive entertainment and a threat to shogunal authority, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history in the inhabitants of Edo (present-day Tokyo) by invoking "worlds," or sekai, derived from earlier military tales, and overlaying them onto the present. She then analyzes the profound changes that took place in Edo kabuki toward the end of the early modern period, which witnessed the rise of a new type of character: the vengeful female ghost.Shimazaki's bold reinterpretation of the history of kabuki centers on the popular ghost play Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (The Eastern Seaboard Highway Ghost Stories at Yotsuya, 1825) by Tsuruya Nanboku IV. Drawing not only on kabuki scripts but also on a wide range of other sources, from theatrical ephemera and popular fiction to medical and religious texts, she sheds light on the development of the ubiquitous trope of the vengeful female ghost and its illumination of new themes at a time when the samurai world was losing its relevance. She explores in detail the process by which nineteenth-century playwrights began dismantling the Edo tradition of "presenting the past" by abandoning their long-standing reliance on the sekai. She then reveals how, in the 1920s, a new generation of kabuki playwrights, critics, and scholars reinvented the form again, "textualizing" kabuki so that it could be pressed into service as a guarantor of national identity.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aJapanese drama
_yEdo period, 1600-1868
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aKabuki
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/shim17226
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231540520
856 4 2 _3Cover
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