Download or read book Kabuki Reflections written by David Mack and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Kabuki written by Samuel L. Leiter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete texts of Benten Kozo, Pulling the Carriage Apart and The Village School, Shunkan, and Naozamurai. Commentary on each play by actors and critics. Nearly 100 photographs.
Download or read book Kabuki written by Rosina Buckland and published by National Museums of Scotland. This book was released on 2013 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog giving highlights of National Museum Scotland's collection of nineteenth century Japanese woodblock prints featuring kabuki performances - a combination of drama, dance, music, and acrobatics.
Download or read book Kabuki written by David Mack and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan. A new age of corporate feudalism. The worlds of business, organized crime, and politics now exist in a delicate interdependence. Enter the Noh, a government agency that secrectly polices that balance of worlds. Kabuki, an operative of the Noh, has disappeared. Her quest to come to terms with her history has put her in direct conflict with the powers she serves. The other Noh Agents are sent to search for her. The trail leads them through a labyrinth of corporate espionage, conflicting government agencies, and the Japanese underworld. A mix of criminal intrigue, personal duality, and awkward friendship, elegantly told through the masks and metaphors of Japanese mysthology.
Download or read book Onnagata written by Maki Isaka and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a “labyrinth” of gendering, the practice of men playing women’s roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In this case study of how gender has been defined and redefined through the centuries, Maki Isaka examines how the onnagata’s theatrical gender “impersonation” has shaped the concept and mechanisms of femininity and gender construction in Japan. The implications of the study go well beyond disciplinary and geographic cloisters.
Download or read book Kabuki Omnibus Volume 1 written by David Mack and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate 25 years of Kabuki and immerse yourself in the inspiration for Sony's upcoming Kabuki television series! The origin, the foundation of the story . . . The very beginning of the acclaimed series created by David Mack. This edition collects the first two original Kabuki volumes: Circle of Blood and Dreams in an easy to read digital format . . . the perfect book for fans of Mack and Kabuki, and brand-new Kabuki readers! A young woman code name, "Kabuki" struggles with her identity in near-future Japan. Working as an assassin for a clandestine government body known as "The Noh," Kabuki executes dangerous individuals before they become national-level threats, but when her biological father begins to compromise the agency she works for Kabuki sets out to eliminate him and starts down a difficult path to her own self-discovery.
Download or read book Masterful Illusions written by Ann Yonemura and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edo Kabuki in Transition written by Satoko Shimazaki and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Japanese Kabuki Drama written by Margaret H. Young and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kabuki Theatre written by Earle Ernst and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kabuki a Pocket Guide written by Ronald Cavaye and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabuki A Pocket Guide introduces readers to the foundations of Kabuki—its history and its actors, its acting styles and its performance, its color and music—to the sheer beauty and joy of Kabuki. Kabuki, the popular theatre of Japan, began in about 1603 and is still flourishing today. It was the entertainment of the common people as opposed to Noh, the refined theatre of the aristocracy, and is a close relative of the Bunraku puppet theater. All the actors in Kabuki, even those who play female roles, are men and plays and dances deal with the love of the heroes and villains form Japans real or legendary past. Concise enough to take to performance, this pocket guide to Kabuki provides a wealth of fascinating information about plays, the actors, and their history. As only an insider can do, the author takes us behind the scene to meet the actors, attend rehearsal, and get a first-hand look at the makeup, costumes, sets and props that go into a Kabuki performance.
Download or read book The Red Devil Battery Sign written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.
Download or read book Guide to Japanese Drama written by Leonard Cabell Pronko and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kabuki Dancer written by 有吉佐和子 and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized biography of Okuni, the 17th Century Japanese temple dancer who invented the Kabuki theatre. The novel chronicles her love life and the public's reaction to her innovations, such as cross-dressing, reaction which tended to vary with the political climate of the day.
Download or read book Decadence and Dissolution written by Jack Hunter and published by Creation Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) was one of the last great masters of ukiyo-e, the Japanese art of woodblock-printing which peaked in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Inspired by the plays, actors and customs of kabuki theatre, and using vibrant new chemical dyes imported from Europe, Kunichika created a visually dazzling pictorial record of this long-lost, decadent underworld of old Edo. As well as creating "mirrors" of popular productions and stars, he also cast the most dynamic actors of his time in the roles of tattooed robbers, samurai, female bandits and other elements from society's fringes, immortalising them in dozens of intense and intricate print series and tableaux. Even as ukiyo-e came under threat from the emergence of new imaging technologies, Kunichika remained true to his art until the very end of the 19th century. DECADENCE AND DISSOLUTION -- edited by Jack Hunter (who also edited the ground-breaking extreme ukiyo-e anthology "Dream Spectres") -- collects over 150 of Kunichika's most striking and innovative designs from kabuki theatre, presented in large-format and full-colour throughout. Many have never been published before, even in Japan. Extensive sections on tattoo pictures, single-sheet actor portraits and wide-screen triptychs are augmented by a foreword and a listing of Kunichika's most important series. Fourth in a dynamic new series presenting the cutting edge of 19th century Japanese art.
Download or read book Japanese Art written by Joan Stanley-Baker and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Japanese painting, calligraphy, architecture, sculpture, and other arts from the prehistoric period to modern times.
Download or read book The Painted Body written by Michel Thévoz and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man is distinguished from animals by a self-retouching impulse, an urge to remake his own body. This book surveys and illustrates the different kinds of body decoration, such as painting, make-up, tattooing, and scarring, which have been practiced all over the world from prehistoric times to the Body Art and cosmetics of today. The social implications are spelled out in detail.
