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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century

Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context

By: Akihiro Odanaka,Masami Iwai

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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century

Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context

By: Akihiro Odanaka,Masami Iwai

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language but also cultural barriers of this work. In this book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays underrepresented in English through rexamining their siginifcance on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of the audience's expectation that could not have materialized outside the theatre. Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century aims to make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the political and cultural implications of this revered theatre tradition.

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365

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

0429620004

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9780429620003

Ascending Chaos

The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006

By: Masami Teraoka

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Ascending Chaos

The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006

By: Masami Teraoka

Published to coincide with a series of major exhibitions extending beyond 2007, Ascending Chaos is the first major retrospective of Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka's prolific and acclaimed work thus far. In Teraoka's paintingswhich have evolved from his wry mimicry of Japanese woodblock prints to much larger and complex canvasses reminiscent of Bosch and Brueghelthe political and the personal collide in a riot of sexually frank tableaux. Populated by geishas and goddesses, priests, and politicians, and prominent contemporary figures, these paintings are the spectacular next phase of a wildly inventive career. With essays by renowned art critics who discuss how Teraoka's work inventively marries east and west, sex and religion, Ascending Chaos is a critical overview of this cultural trickster.

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251

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Chronicle Books

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ISBN 10

0811850978

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9780811850971

Kare Kano Volume 15

By: Masami Tsuda

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Kare Kano Volume 15

By: Masami Tsuda

Soichiro Arima's secret meetings with his birth mother pose a threat to his relationships with his adoptive parents and his girlfriend Yukino, forcing him to turn to his best friend Asaba for support.

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204

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TokyoPop

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1595325891

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9781595325891

Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century

Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context

By: Akihiro Odanaka,Masami Iwai

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Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context

By: Akihiro Odanaka,Masami Iwai

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0429620004

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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century

Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century

Ascending Chaos

Ascending Chaos

Kare Kano Volume 15

Kare Kano Volume 15

Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century

Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century

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