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- Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: East Asia Program, Cornell University
summary
This long-awaited volume presents the fifth and final category of Noh plays, often called kiri-nō, or “ending Noh,” because they are staged last in a formal performance. This group comprises fifty of the most active and exciting of all plays in the Noh repertoire. The shite include deities, ghosts, or living humans, as well as a plethora of supernatural beings such as tengu (strange long-nosed creatures), monstrous creatures, demons, and fiends. The fifth-group Noh with such shite are all supernatural or visional. None of them is totally realistic. These ghosts, deities, and monsters sometimes appear to attack men, sometimes to help them, and sometimes just to tell their stories. Dividing the plays into seven subgroups according to structure, the authors fully analyze their dramatic characteristics. The book includes line-by-line translations of eight Noh representing all of the subgroups, together with the Romanized original Japanese texts, detailed introductions, and running commentaries.
Table of Contents
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- The Plays: Kuzu
- pp. 47-82
- The Plays: Matsuyama Tengu
- pp. 83-114
- The Plays: Karuma Tengu
- pp. 115-160
- The Plays: Shōkun
- pp. 161-196
- The Plays: Kumasaka
- pp. 197-230
- The Plays: Kuruma-Zō
- pp. 231-260
- The Plays: Nue
- pp. 261-298
- The Plays: Adachigahara
- pp. 299-336
- Appendix 1: Fifth-Group Noh
- pp. 337-340
- Appendix 2: List of Poems
- pp. 341-344
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- pp. 345-370
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 371-376
Additional Information
ISBN
9781942242611
Related ISBN(s)
9781933947310
MARC Record
OCLC
927384313
Pages
420
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No