The Nō Plays Of Japan
by Arthur Waley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Waley, Arthur, 1889-1966
- Title
- The Nō Plays of Japan
- Credits
- Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries and HathiTrust)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
- Subject
- Japanese drama -- Translations into English
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43304
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43304
- Release Date
- July 26, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.TRANSLATIONS BY ARTHUR WALEY — A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems — More Translations from the Chinese — THE NŌ PLAYS OF JAPAN
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — KEY TO PLAN I — KEY TO PLAN II
- 5.INTRODUCTION — (1) THE NŌ STAGE. — (2) THE PERFORMERS. — ( a ) The Actors. — ( b ) The Chorus. — ( c ) The Musicians. — COSTUME. — PROPERTIES. — DANCING AND ACTING. — THE PLAYS. — ORIGINS. — YŪGEN — PATRONS — IMITATION (Monomane). — APPARITIONS — CHILD PLAYS — RESTRAINT — NOTE ON BUDDHISM
- 6.ATSUMORI, IKUTA, AND TSUNEMASA. — ATSUMORI — IKUTA — TSUNEMASA
- 7.CHAPTER II — KUMASAKA — EBOSHI-ORI — BENKEI ON THE BRIDGE (HASHI-BENKEI)
- 8.CHAPTER III — KAGEKIYO — HACHI NO KI — NOTE ON KOMACHI. — SOTOBA KOMACHI
- 9.CHAPTER IV — Note on Ukai. — UKAI (THE CORMORANT-FISHER) — AYA NO TSUZUMI (THE DAMASK DRUM) — Note on Aoi No Uye. — AOI NO UYE (PRINCESS HOLLYHOCK)
- 10.CHAPTER V — Note on Kantan. — KANTAN — THE HŌKA PRIESTS (HŌKAZŌ) — Note on Hagoromo. — HAGOROMO
- 11.CHAPTER VI — Note on Tanikō and Ikeniye. — TANIKŌ (THE VALLEY-HURLING) — IKENIYE (THE POOL-SACRIFICE) — HATSUYUKI (EARLY SNOW) — HAKU RAKUTEN — INTRODUCTION — ACT II.
- 12.CHAPTER VII SUMMARIES — HANAKATAMI (THE FLOWER BASKET) — OMINAMESHI — MATSUKAZE — SHUNKWAN — AMA (THE FISHER-GIRL) — TAKE NO YUKI (SNOW ON THE BAMBOOS) — TORI-OI — YUYA — TANGO-MONOGURUI — IKKAKU SENNIN (THE ONE-HORNED RISHI) — YAMAUBA (THE DAME OF THE MOUNTAINS) — HOTOKE NO HARA — MARI (THE FOOTBALL) — TŌRU — MAI-GURUMA [213] (THE DANCE WAGGONS)
- 13.CHAPTER VIII KYŌGEN — THE BIRD-CATCHER IN HELL [215] (ESASHI JŪŌ)
- 14.SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY — EUROPEAN — JAPANESE
- 15.APPENDIX I — MODERN NŌ LETTERS FROM JAPAN
- 16.APPENDIX II
- 17.FOOTNOTES
- 18.Transcriber’s Note
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