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Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo storytelling, vanguard butoh dance and media experimentation. The first part addresses traditional genres, their historical trajectories and performance conventions. Part II covers the spectrum of new genres since Meiji (1868-), and Parts III to VI provide discussions of playwriting, architecture, Shakespeare, and interculturalism, situating Japanese elements within their global theatrical context. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and prints, this history features interviews with key modern directors, an overview of historical scholarship in English and Japanese, and a timeline. A further reading list covers a range of multimedia resources to encourage further explorations.

Theater --- J6826 --- History. --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater --- History --- Théâtre --- Histoire --- Théâtre --- Histoire.

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Asian literature --- Japanese drama --- Translations into English --- J6826 --- J6835.90 --- J6800.90 --- J5800 --- -Japanese literature --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- modern drama and others --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Literature -- drama --- -Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater --- J6826.30 --- J5840 --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater -- Anthologies, selections, series, sōsho --- Japan: Literature -- drama -- modern drama --- Translations into English. --- Japanese drama - Translations into English

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"An anthology of modern Japanese drama from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century"--

J6826 --- J6800.80 --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japanese drama --- Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Japanese literature --- History and criticism --- History --- History and criticism. --- Japan --- Drama --- Asian literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099

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An up-to-date cultural history of the Japanese theatre in all its forms including primitive rituals, court and popular dance-drama, puppet shows and westernized plays, is narrated here for the first time in English by a western authority in the field. The book underlines Zeami and Zenchiku's secret tradition of the nō , explaining Zen-inspired spiritual teachings for the actor's training on the way to enlightened performance. It also gives relevance to the transformation of an anti-establishment entertainment by prostitutes into spectacular kabuki stagecraft, and to the modernization process which created shingeki modern drama, and moved it into the context of world theatre. The final chapter summarizes the history of western discovery of the Japanese stage. The illustrations, the indexes, the glossary and the extensive bibliography - including all major literature in western languages until 1989 - also contribute to make this volume a must for all students of the Japanese theatre, and for anyone interested in a better understanding of Japanese culture as mirrored in its theatrical component.

Theatrical science --- Japan --- Theater --- Théâtre --- History --- Histoire --- 792.032.12 --- 895.6 --- J6826 --- J6800 --- J1723.20 --- -Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Oudjapans theater --- Japanse literatuur --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- general and history --- Japan: Religion in general -- shamanism --- -Oudjapans theater --- 895.6 Japanse literatuur --- 792.032.12 Oudjapans theater --- -895.6 Japanse literatuur --- Dramatics --- Théâtre

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Theater audiences --- Theater --- J6800 --- J6826 --- J6834 --- J6835.90 --- J6835 --- 792.028.2 --- 792.091 --- 792.091 Theatervoorstellingen --- Theatervoorstellingen --- 792.028.2 Theater: interactie tussen kunstenaars en toehoorders --- Theater: interactie tussen kunstenaars en toehoorders --- Audiences, Theater --- Theatergoers --- Performing arts --- Theater attendance --- History --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- general and history --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- nō and kyōgen (noh) --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- modern drama and others --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- kabuki --- Audiences --- Acting --- Japan