The vibrant merchant culture of Tokugawa Japan gave rise to many new forms of art, none more fascinating than the puppet theater, JMruri, created chiefly by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the foremost playwright of popular Japanese drama. In this analysis of Chikamatsu's artistry, Dr. Gerstle focuses on features hitherto neglected by Western scholars the musical structure of JMruri, integral to the form, mood, and movement of the drama. For extensive translations from the various types of Chikamatsu's dramas, Gerstle supplies the ...
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The vibrant merchant culture of Tokugawa Japan gave rise to many new forms of art, none more fascinating than the puppet theater, JMruri, created chiefly by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the foremost playwright of popular Japanese drama. In this analysis of Chikamatsu's artistry, Dr. Gerstle focuses on features hitherto neglected by Western scholars the musical structure of JMruri, integral to the form, mood, and movement of the drama. For extensive translations from the various types of Chikamatsu's dramas, Gerstle supplies the musical notations, which illuminate the sophisticated conventions of this unique and timeless artistic form. Chikamatsu's art, combining puppets, text, samisen music, and chanting/narration, encompasses three major types of drama--history, contemporary-life, and love-suicide plays--each with distinct structural features. Gerstle shows how the music of JMruri, a mixture of the samisen and chanting/narration, supplements the texts and expresses a dramatized action or emotion through complex changes in pitch, tempo, and style of delivery. Richly illustrated with woodblock prints, this is a fascinating study, which will be welcomed by scholars of Japanese culture, literature, and musicology.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Presumed first edition, 1986, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 248pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild rubbing and shelfwear, toning.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0674131711. Jacket with 1" closed tear, and chip with loss, rear top edge. Front of jacket and cloth with a shallow dent. Now in protective mylar wrap.; Includes index, appendices, glossarys, bibliography. Illustrated with drawings, photograph.; Harvard East Asian Monographs; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 248 pages.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Hbk 248pp illustr in b+w with decorated endpapers small closed tear at top of dj now in protective sleeve otherwise an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.
