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Backstage At Bunraku

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Author : Barbara C. Adachi
language : en
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Release Date : 1985

Backstage At Bunraku written by Barbara C. Adachi and has been published by Weatherhill, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Bunraku categories.

Members of the Osaka Bunraku Troupe reveal in this book the secrets of their diverse arts and crafts, their training, and their proud commitment to their centuries-old art.

The Bunraku Puppet Theatre Of Japan

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Author : Stanleigh H. Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2012-12-31

The Bunraku Puppet Theatre Of Japan written by Stanleigh H. Jones and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-31 with Drama categories.

The plays presented here were first performed between 1769 and 1832, a time when the Japanese puppet theatre known as Bunraku was beginning to lose its pre-eminence to Kabuki. During this period, however, several important puppet plays were created that went on to become standards in both the Bunraku and Kabuki repertoires; three of the plays in this volume achieved this level of importance. This span of some sixty-odd years was also a formative one in the development of how plays were presented, an important feature in the modern staging of works from the traditional plebeian theatre. Only a handful of complete and uncut plays—often as much as ten hours long—are produced in Bunraku or Kabuki nowadays; included here is one of these. Two among the four plays contained in this volume are examples of the much more common practice of staging a single popular act or scene from a much longer drama that itself is seldom, if ever, performed in its entirety today. Kabuki, while better known outside Japan, has been a great beneficiary of the puppet theatre, borrowing perhaps as much as half of its body of work from Bunraku dramas. Bunraku, in turn, has raided the Kabuki repertoire but to a far more modest degree. The final play in this collection, The True Tale of Asagao, is an instance of this uncommon reverse borrowing. Moreover, it is an example of yet another way in which some plays have come to be presented: a coherent subplot of a longer work that gained an independent theatrical existence while its parent drama has since disappeared from the stage. These later eighteenth-century works display a continued development toward greater attention to the theatrical features of puppet plays as opposed to the earlier, more literary approach found most notably in the dramas of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (d. 1725). Newly translated and illustrated for the general reader and the specialist, the plays in this volume are accompanied by informative introductions, extensive notes on stage action, and discussions of the various changes that Bunraku underwent, particularly in the latter half of the eighteenth century, its golden age.

Bunraku

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Author : Donald Keene
language : en
Publisher: Tokyo] : Kodansha International
Release Date : 1965

Bunraku written by Donald Keene and has been published by Tokyo] : Kodansha International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Performing Arts categories.

Japanese Political Theatre In The 18th Century

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Author : Akihiro Odanaka
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-16

Japanese Political Theatre In The 18th Century written by Akihiro Odanaka and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-16 with Art categories.

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language but also cultural barriers of this work. In this book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays underrepresented in English through rexamining their siginifcance on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of the audience's expectation that could not have materialized outside the theatre. Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century aims to make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the political and cultural implications of this revered theatre tradition.

Masterpieces Of Japanese Puppetry Sculptured Heads Of The Bunraku Theater

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Author : "Bunraku Kashira no Meisaku" Kankōkai
language : en
Publisher: Rutland Vt. : C. E. Tuttle Company
Release Date : 1958

Masterpieces Of Japanese Puppetry Sculptured Heads Of The Bunraku Theater written by "Bunraku Kashira no Meisaku" Kankōkai and has been published by Rutland Vt. : C. E. Tuttle Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Bunraku categories.