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Edo Kabuki in Transition - From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost (Hardcover)
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Edo Kabuki in Transition - From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost (Hardcover)
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Satoko 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.
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