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Kabuki's Forgotten War

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824832000
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki's Forgotten War written by James R. Brandon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that, up to the very end of the Pacific War, kabuki was a living theater and, as an institution, an active participant in contemporary events, rising and falling in consonance with Japan’s imperial adventures. Drawing extensively from Japanese sources—books, newspapers, magazines, war reports, speeches, scripts, and diaries—Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan’s Fifteen-Year Sacred War. He reveals, for example, that kabuki stars raised funds to buy fighter and bomber aircraft for the imperial forces and that pro-ducers arranged large-scale tours for kabuki troupes to entertain soldiers stationed in Manchuria, China, and Korea. Kabuki playwrights contributed no less than 160 new plays that dramatized frontline battles or rewrote history to propagate imperial ideology. Abridged by censors, molded by the Bureau of Information, and partially incorporated into the League of Touring Theaters, kabuki reached new audiences as it expanded along with the new Japanese empire. By the end of the war, however, it had fallen from government favor and in 1944–1946 it nearly expired when Japanese government decrees banished leading kabuki companies to minor urban theaters and the countryside. Kabuki’s Forgotten War includes more than a hundred illustrations, many of which have never been published in an English-language work. It is nothing less than a com-plete revision of kabuki’s recent history and as such goes beyond correcting a significant misconception. This new study remedies a historical absence that has distorted our understanding of Japan’s imperial enterprise and its aftermath.

The Adventures of Kabuki

Author : Jane Felber- Strauss
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499069243
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Kabuki written by Jane Felber- Strauss and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this book are true. Kabuki was an athletic, bold, and inquisitive feline. My husband and I would often find him in extraordinary and precarious predicaments. He was comical at times, yet determined. His agility and athletic abilities permitted some incredible escapades.

Kabuki Omnibus Volume 1

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506716105
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki Omnibus Volume 1 written by David Mack and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate 25 years of Kabuki and immerse yourself in the inspiration for Sony's upcoming Kabuki television series! The origin, the foundation of the story . . . The very beginning of the acclaimed series created by David Mack. This edition collects the first two original Kabuki volumes: Circle of Blood and Dreams in an easy to read digital format . . . the perfect book for fans of Mack and Kabuki, and brand-new Kabuki readers! A young woman code name, "Kabuki" struggles with her identity in near-future Japan. Working as an assassin for a clandestine government body known as "The Noh," Kabuki executes dangerous individuals before they become national-level threats, but when her biological father begins to compromise the agency she works for Kabuki sets out to eliminate him and starts down a difficult path to her own self-discovery.

Edo Kabuki in Transition

Author : Satoko Shimazaki
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540523
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Edo Kabuki in Transition written by Satoko Shimazaki and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding of early modern kabuki as a subversive entertainment and a threat to shogunal authority, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history in the inhabitants of Edo (present-day Tokyo) by invoking "worlds," or sekai, derived from earlier military tales, and overlaying them onto the present. She then analyzes the profound changes that took place in Edo kabuki toward the end of the early modern period, which witnessed the rise of a new type of character: the vengeful female ghost. Shimazaki's bold reinterpretation of the history of kabuki centers on the popular ghost play Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (The Eastern Seaboard Highway Ghost Stories at Yotsuya, 1825) by Tsuruya Nanboku IV. Drawing not only on kabuki scripts but also on a wide range of other sources, from theatrical ephemera and popular fiction to medical and religious texts, she sheds light on the development of the ubiquitous trope of the vengeful female ghost and its illumination of new themes at a time when the samurai world was losing its relevance. She explores in detail the process by which nineteenth-century playwrights began dismantling the Edo tradition of "presenting the past" by abandoning their long-standing reliance on the sekai. She then reveals how, in the 1920s, a new generation of kabuki playwrights, critics, and scholars reinvented the form again, "textualizing" kabuki so that it could be pressed into service as a guarantor of national identity.

Kabuki

Author : David Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887279994
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki written by David Mack and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabuki Vol 3: Masks Of The Noh HC

The Traditional Theatre of Japan

Author : John Wesley Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Traditional Theatre of Japan written by John Wesley Harris and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of the main forms of traditional Japanese drama - Kyogen, Noh, Kabuki, and Puppetry.

Kabuki

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Kabuki
ISBN 13 : 9781582402567
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki written by David Mack and published by Kabuki. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed & numbered with original SKETCH! Limited to 500 copies. HC, 7x10, 256pg, b&w

Kabuki's Forgotten War

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863216
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki's Forgotten War written by James R. Brandon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that, up to the very end of the Pacific War, kabuki was a living theater and, as an institution, an active participant in contemporary events, rising and falling in consonance with Japan’s imperial adventures. Drawing extensively from Japanese sources—books, newspapers, magazines, war reports, speeches, scripts, and diaries—Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan’s Fifteen-Year Sacred War. He reveals, for example, that kabuki stars raised funds to buy fighter and bomber aircraft for the imperial forces and that pro-ducers arranged large-scale tours for kabuki troupes to entertain soldiers stationed in Manchuria, China, and Korea. Kabuki playwrights contributed no less than 160 new plays that dramatized frontline battles or rewrote history to propagate imperial ideology. Abridged by censors, molded by the Bureau of Information, and partially incorporated into the League of Touring Theaters, kabuki reached new audiences as it expanded along with the new Japanese empire. By the end of the war, however, it had fallen from government favor and in 1944–1946 it nearly expired when Japanese government decrees banished leading kabuki companies to minor urban theaters and the countryside. Kabuki’s Forgotten War includes more than a hundred illustrations, many of which have never been published in an English-language work. It is nothing less than a com-plete revision of kabuki’s recent history and as such goes beyond correcting a significant misconception. This new study remedies a historical absence that has distorted our understanding of Japan’s imperial enterprise and its aftermath.

Metamorphosis

Author : David Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphosis written by David Mack and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan. A new age of corporate feudalism. The worlds of business, organized crime, and politics now exist in a delicate interdependence. Enter the Noh, a government agency that secrectly polices that balance of worlds. Kabuki, an operative of the Noh, has disappeared. Her quest to come to terms with her history has put her in direct conflict with the powers she serves. The other Noh Agents are sent to search for her. The trail leads them through a labyrinth of corporate espionage, conflicting government agencies, and the Japanese underworld. A mix of criminal intrigue, personal duality, and awkward friendship, elegantly told through the masks and metaphors of Japanese mysthology.

Kabuki Volume 5

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Kabuki
ISBN 13 : 9781582402031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki Volume 5 written by David Mack and published by Kabuki. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an institution for renegade government agents, a scarred woman engages in a psychological showdown with her interrogators. She meets the other "defective" inmates, discovers the nature of identity, quantum physics, time, and the meaning of life. But can she escape her captors before her former comrades track her down to silence her?

Manners and Mischief

Author : Jan Bardsley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520267834
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Manners and Mischief written by Jan Bardsley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Manners and Mischief is a cohesive, stimulating volume. Reading these essays and the editors' enlightening introduction was a joy: I learned a great deal, smiled and laughed with uncommon regularity, and marveled at the quality of this remarkable collection." -William M. Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind "This book is full of fascinating insights. Well-written and often witty, it captures a detailed snapshot of Japanese society in the early 21st century. I would say this is the most insightful book on modern Japan I have read in years." -Liza Dalby, anthropologist and novelist

Japanese Classical Theater in Films

Author : Keiko I. McDonald
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838635025
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Classical Theater in Films written by Keiko I. McDonald and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku are the three distinct genres of classical theater that have made Japan's dramatic art unique. The audience steeped in these traditional theatrical forms sees many aspects of stage conventions in Japanese cinema. This intimacy makes the aesthetic/intellectual experience of films more enriching. Japanese Classical Theater in Films aims at heightening such awareness in the West, the awareness of the influence that these three major dramatic genres have had on Japan's cinematic tradition. Using an eclectic critical framework - a solid combination of historical and cultural approaches reinforced with formalist and auteurist perspectives - Keiko I. McDonald undertakes this much needed, ambitious task.

Kabuki Boy

Author : Perle Besserman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988383760
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki Boy written by Perle Besserman and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Perle Besserman's KABUKI BOY is a novel of Japan set in and around the capital city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) during the waning decades of the Tokugawa Era (1600-1868). Broadening the often narrowly focused literary and cinematic portrayals of samurai resistance to their declining social status, Besserman's vivid narrative conveys that tumultuous period through the eyes of its peasants, priests, politicians, revolutionaries, mountebanks, geisha, and actors using the Kabuki theatre as a backdrop. Its nineteenth-century framework nested in a post-modern narrative by its fictional twentieth-century "editor," a cultural historian and abbot of a Zen monastery one hundred miles from Tokyo, the book is comprised of memoirs, theatrical and monastery records, personal letters and journals, all centering on the life of a Kabuki boy actor whose brief but illustrious career reflects not only the "golden age of Kabuki Theatre," but the most dramatic spiritual, political, and artistic events characterizing Japan's violent emergence into the modern world.

Overthrow

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805082409
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Overthrow written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.

The Traditional Theater of Japan

Author : Yoshinobu Inoura
Publisher : Floating World Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781891640407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Traditional Theater of Japan written by Yoshinobu Inoura and published by Floating World Editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to present a comprehensive history of Japanese theater illustrated with monochrome photographs of performances, costumes, masks and props.

The Outlook

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nightwing (2016-) #42

Author : Jackson Lanzing
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Nightwing (2016-) #42 written by Jackson Lanzing and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒTHE CRIMSON KABUKIÓ! When Damian Wayne disappears during a solo mission to Tokyo, Nightwing must enter the seedy underworld to save the boy who was once his Robin. But Dick will have to ascend the Crimson KabukiÕs tower of crime and survive a game of death against three of JapanÕs most powerful fighters. Can Nightwing defeat an entire building of elite fighters, or will he lose Damian forever?