Ebook: The Noh drama: ten plays from the Japanese

Table of Contents; Preface; General Introduction ; Introduction ; TAKASAGO ; TAMURA; SANEMORI ; KIYOTSUNE; TOBOKU; IZUTSU (Well-Curb); EGUCHI ; BASHO ; SUMIDAGAWA (The Sumida River) ; FUNA-BENKEI (Benkei in the Boat) ; Index.;NOH as an independent and original art form?ultimately destined to supersedethe earlier Dengaku, Sarugaku and other song-dances?incorporates the mostsignificant elements of the former and especially of the Kusemai (tune dance). With it a new literary form may be said to have been created. The inventionof Noh is attributed to Kwannami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384), a distinguished actorand writer of Sarugaku and to his son Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), who developedand refined the art under the patronage of Yoshimitsu, the third Ashikagashogun. In addition to his dramatic.