Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater
Author:   Stanleigh Jones Jr.
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 October 1993
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stanleigh Jones Jr.
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780231080521


ISBN 10:   0231080522
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 October 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Introduction Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees Dramatis Personae Prologue Act One Scene 1. The Imperial Palace Scene 2. The Hermitage at North Saga Village Scene 3. The Horikawa Mansion Scene 4. Kawagoe Taro Comes as Envoy Act Two Scene 1. Before the Fushimi Inari Shrine Scene 2. The Tokaiya Act Three Scene 1. The Pasania Tree Scene 2. The Death of Kokingo Scene 3. The Sushi Shop Act Four Scene 1. Michiyuki: The Journey with the Drum Scene 2. The Zao Hall Scene 3. The Conference at the Zao Hall Scene 4. The Mansion of Kawatsura Hogen Scene 5. The Fox Act Five Scene 1. In the Mountains of Yoshino Bibliography

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Thoroughly researched and elegantly written... an excellent text for inclusion in a survey course of Japanese theatre. Asian Theatre Journal A good translation of this magnificent play. Monumenta Nipponica


Thoroughly researched and elegantly written... an excellent text for inclusion in a survey course of Japanese theatre. * Asian Theatre Journal * A good translation of this magnificent play. * Monumenta Nipponica * Thoroughly researched and elegantly written... an excellent text for inclusion in a survey course of Japanese theatre. Asian Theatre Journal A good translation of this magnificent play. Monumenta Nipponica


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Stanleigh H. Jones Jr. is professor emeritus of Japanese at Pomona College. He studied Japanese at International Christian University in Tokyo and completed his Ph.D in Japanese literature at Columbia University. He is also the editor and translator of Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy and the author of The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan: Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

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