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  • Kurosawa's Rashomon

    A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films

    by Paul Anderer ...
    A groundbreaking investigation into the early life of the iconic Akira Kurosawa in connection to his most famous film—taking us deeper into Kurosawa and his world.Paul Anderer looks back at Kurosawa before he became famous, taking us into the turbulent world that made him. We encounter Tokyo, Kurosawa’s birthplace, which would be destroyed twice before his eyes; explore early twentieth-century ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Spirit of Noh

    A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden

    by Zeami ...
    Translated by William Scott Wilson ...
    The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has long held a fascination for people both in the East and the West. For six hundred years it has had a huge influence on Japanese culture—and has inspired such Western artists as Ezra Pound and William ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Little Songs of Geisha

    Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta

    by Liza Dalby ...
    A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. It is a vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan.Traditional Japanese kouta are the musical embodiment of the geisha in the intoxicating "flower and willow world." Literally, these are "little songs" sung by a geisha who accompanies ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Love of Izayoi & Seishin

    A Kabuki Play by Kawatake Mokuami

    by Kawatake Mokuami ...
    Translated by Frank T. Motofuji ...
    This dramatic and absorbing play tells the story of the courtesan Izayoi and the priest Seishin; classic lovers who are doomed to suffer the tragic consequences of their passion.As a representative example of Japanese play writing of the 19th century The Love of Izayoi and Seishin is a superlative example of the turbulence and dramatic incident that are the major conventions of Kabuki.The ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Japanese Folk Plays: The Ink Smeared Lady and Other Kyogen

    The Ink Smeared Lady and Other Kyogen

    This collection of Japanese folk plays reveals a previously unknown and decidedly unaristocratic element to Japanese theater.Interspersed between the stately, slower paced dramas of Japan’s Noh theater are the delightful comic plays or interludes known as Kyogen. These brief plays evolved from the bawdy skits that were rousingly enjoyed by the plebeian populaces of the cities in feudal Japan some ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Noh Drama - Ten Plays

    by None Specified ...
    This classic of Japanese studies presents extensive information about the history, culture and practice of Noh drama—one of Japan's most treasured dramatic art forms.Noh as an independent and original art form—ultimately destined to supersede the earlier Dengaku, Sarugaku and other song dances—incorporates the most significant elements of the former and especially of the Kusemai (tune dance).With ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama

    Edited by Mitsuya Mori, M. Cody Poulton, J. Thomas Rimer ...
    This anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's best and most representative twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century works in one volume. It opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji-period drama and follows with six chronological sections: "The Age of Taisho Drama"; The Tsukiji Little Theater and Its Aftermath"; "Wartime and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Junzi

    by Pen Avram ...
    Kroupa and Hendrych go to the theatre! In their first full-length stage play, our intrepid duo go deeper than ever before while investigating a suspicious death, which leads them to the the Chinese underworld. However, while all the clues point to a gangland killing, could the real motive be far more personal? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Painted Fans of Japan

    15 Noh Drama Masterpieces

    by Reiko Chiba ...
    Noh Fans are an essential element element of Japanese theater and this collection of fans is a rare example of this fine Japanese art.The chief purpose of Painted Fans of Japan is to present for Westerners some of the gorgeous paintings found on fans used in the traditional Japanese Non drama. Painting as limited to conform to the fan shape has teen practiced for hundreds of years in Japan, even ... Read more

    $8.69 USD