In an important and unique contribution to the study of noh, this
volume includes, for the first time, essays on the subject of one
noh play written by scholars from both sides of the Pacific Ocean
in their own language, Japanese or English (with a summary of each
contribution translated into the other language also included). The
essays show some of the breadth and depth that is available for the
study of Japanese literature and drama both in Japan and abroad.
Japanese scholars Amano Fumio, Nishino Haruo, Takemoto Mikio, and
Wakita Haruko join with actor Uzawa Hisa and American scholars
Monica Bethe, Steven Brown, Susan Klein, William LaFleur, Susan
Matisoff, Carolyn Morley, Mae Smethurst, and Arthur Thornhill, to
interpret the noh Ominameshi, all from the vantage point of their
own analytical approaches. The intent is to provide the reader with
more than just an introduction to the variety of ways of studying
noh in general by focusing on one particular play and analyzing it
closely and from many directions.The volume includes a preface and
introduction plus 19 color and 4 black-and-white illustrations; one
less literal and one more literal translation of the noh
accompanied by the Japanese texts; and contributions interpreting
Ominameshi in the light of medieval commentaries, the ai-kyogen,
new historicism, gender studies, legends surrounding the history of
the play's setting, the etiology of the graves of the two principal
characters, poetic usage, other plays on the subject of ominameshi,
the religious background and meaning, authorship, structure,
performance, costumes and masks. The volume concludes with
reflections on the performance of the play by Uzawa Hisa in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the conference out of which the
book developed.
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