Embodied Performance - Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh Theater

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei-a leading scholar of noh theater-provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan's most celebrated art forms.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Haruo Shirane
Translator’s Introduction
1. Religion as Theater: The Jishū Sect
2. The Archaeology of Performance in an Age of Extravagance
3. The Art of Collaboration
4. The Genesis of Phantasmal Noh Plays
5. Beautiful Temple Boys and the Emperor System
6. Zeami and the Graceful Aura of a Boy’s Figure
7. The Poetics of Space in Noh
8. Zeami’s Vision of the Actor’s Body as a Medium
9. The Actor’s Basic Posture and the Roof-Covered Noh Stage
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Suggested Readings
Index

About the author

Matsuoka Shinpei is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on medieval Japanese literature and culture.

Janet Goff (1946–2022) was a scholar and devotee of noh and the author of Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (1991).

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Summary

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei—a leading scholar of noh theater—provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan’s most celebrated art forms.

Product details

• Authors: 1 Shinpei Matsuoka, Shinpei Matsuoka
• Assisted by: Janet Goff (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2024
• EAN: 9780231212267
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21226-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, performing arts; literary criticism