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OverviewIn this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei-a leading scholar of noh theater-provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan's most celebrated art forms. Although noh has often been associated with the elite, Embodied Performance explores its links to a wider popular culture, revealing a rich and colorful public space where courtiers and commoners mingled. Matsuoka traces noh's connections to popular and religious dances, linked verse, and chigo (beautiful temple boy) culture, emphasizing performance and the body. He describes the world of noh playwright Zeami as well as his views on dramaturgy and performance-and argues that Zeami was once a chigo. Matsuoka shows how religious rituals and cultural forms like ecstatic dance prayer and plays about demons in hell attracted people on the margins. Such activities, Matsuoka contends, drew on the tension between wild acrobatic movement and corporeal restraint, influencing the development of noh as well as the art of flower arranging and the tea ceremony. Janet Goff's translation makes available in English a classic work of Japanese scholarship that will be invaluable to those interested in medieval Japanese culture, noh, and theatrical practice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Translator Janet Goff , 1 Shinpei Matsuoka , Haruo ShiranePublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231212274ISBN 10: 0231212275 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 30 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Haruo Shirane Translator’s Introduction 1. Religion as Theater: The Jishū Sect 2. The Archaeology of Performance in an Age of Extravagance 3. The Art of Collaboration 4. The Genesis of Phantasmal Noh Plays 5. Beautiful Temple Boys and the Emperor System 6. Zeami and the Graceful Aura of a Boy’s Figure 7. The Poetics of Space in Noh 8. Zeami’s Vision of the Actor’s Body as a Medium 9. The Actor’s Basic Posture and the Roof-Covered Noh Stage Notes Glossary Bibliography Suggested Readings IndexReviewsEmbodied Performance is arguably the most important and influential book on medieval Japanese performance published in the last thirty years. It is a watershed text for bringing together theater history, cultural studies, gender studies, and literary criticism in a holistic, absorbing manner. -- Reginald Jackson, author of <i>A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji</i> Author InformationMatsuoka Shinpei is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on medieval Japanese literature and culture. Janet Goff (1946–2022) was a scholar and devotee of noh and the author of Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (1991). Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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