Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · 天火 · tianmu.org
Drama
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Texts
Certain Noble Plays of Japan — Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra PoundFour Japanese Noh plays, Nishikigi, Hagoromo, Kumasaka and Kagekiyo, in English versions chosen and finished by Ezra Pound from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, with W. B. Yeats’s introduction of April 1916 on the Noh and on the drama of masks, music and dance he meant to make from it.Chushingura, or the Treasury of Loyal Retainers — Jukichi InouyeJukichi Inouye’s English translation of the Chushingura (Kanadehon Chushingura), the joruri drama of 1748 by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu on the vendetta of the forty-seven retainers of Ako, in all eleven acts with notes and his long introduction on Tokugawa society, Bushido and the history behind the play, from the third edition (Tokyo, 1917).Plays of Old Japan — The ‘Nō’ — Marie C. StopesMarie C. Stopes’s 1913 book on the Japanese Nō drama, with a preface by Baron Kato: her long introduction to the theatre, its history, staging, music, actors, costumes, audience and literary style, followed by English verse translations made with Joji Sakurai of The Maiden’s Tomb, Kagekiyo and The Sumida River, and a résumé of Tamura.The Noh Plays of Japan — Arthur WaleyArthur Waley's 1921 translations of nineteen Noh plays with his introduction to Noh theater, its Buddhist and Shinto sources, and Zeami's writings on the art.