Rutland. Tuttle. 1984. Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, 294pp, index, spine a little faded, otherwise a good copy in paperback. A handy one volume overview to Japanese theatre. Sections include historical introduction, kabuki, genroku theatre, contribution of historical kabuki to present day kabuki, the esthetics of kabuki, Meiji era..... More
Rutland. Tuttle. 1982. Reprint. 128pp, paperback, very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 68307). More
Harvard. Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard. 1986. Black and white illustrations, charts, xvii + 248pp, appendices, notes, glossaries, bibliography, index, pictorial endpapers, light wear dustjacket, a good copy. Analysis of the artistry of the playwright of popular Japanese drama from the Tokugawa period, Chikamatsu. (When referring to this item..... More
New York. Columbia University Press. 2001. Translated and annotated by C. Andrew Gerstle. Black and white illustrations in text throughout, 534pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, dustjacket. "Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers", was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote..... More
Monumenta Nipponica. 1983. 18 page offprint (pages 295 - 312) from Monumenta Nipponica Volume XXXVIII, Number 3, Autumn 1983 with inscription from the translator to Australian poet Harold Stewart. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 137443). More
n.p. The Japan Foundation. (c.1976). Coloured and black and white illustrations, unpaginated, bookplate front paste down, small quarto, wrappers little marked, otherwise a good copy. Catalogue of The Waseda University Theatre Museum Collection. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 29100). More
Tokyo. The Japan Foundation. 1976. Colour and black and white photographic plates, unpaginated, chronology, original wrappers trifle worn and marked, otherwise a good copy. Catalogue from an exhibition of the classic Japanese art form Kabuki, held at the Sydney Opera House in 1976. (When referring to this item please quote..... More
Tokyo. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1935. Many black and white illustrations, 41pp, wrappers browned and chipped on spine with a trifle loss, good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 35519). More
Tokyo. Kodansha. 1973. Revised paperback edition. Photographs by Kaneko Hiroshi. Introduction by Tanizaki Junichiro. Black and white photographic illustrations, 88pp, list of plays, bibliography, index, 2.5cm closed tear on spine, edges browned, endpapers patchily browned and a little foxed, otherwise a good paperback copy. Unlike puppet theatre in many parts..... More
Tokyo. Kodansha. 1973. Revised paperback edition. Photographs by Kaneko Hiroshi. Introduction by Tanizaki Junichiro. Black and white photographic illustrations, 88pp, list of plays, bibliography, index, signature of a prior owner front free endpaper otherwise a good paperback copy. Unlike puppet theatre in many parts of the world where it is..... More
London. Allen & Unwin. 1928. Colour frontis with tissue guard, black and white illustrations, 358pp, endpapers and prelims occasionally marked, covers trifle marked, spine faded. This book traces the general development of Japanese drama. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 50254). More
Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1929. Colour frontis, black and white illustrations, 358pp, upper hinge starting, attractive indigo patterned boards trifle browned. Good copy. Chapter headings include: Origins and Early Forms; Kagura; Matsuri and Street Plays; Dengaku and other Antecedents of Noh; Sarugaku and Noh; Shugen, Yurei and Seirei Noh; Genzai..... More
London. Allen & Unwin. 1955. First edition. Colour frontis, black and white photographic and line illustrations, 317pp, glossary, index, minor wear and discolouration dustjacket. A very good copy. A very useful classic handbook which includes summaries of 6 plays. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 46767). More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1953. 173pp, character list, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, dustjacket minor tearing & discoloration of edges, a good copy. This book is a translation and study of one of the most popular plays of Japanese literature. 'The Love..... More
London. Seagull Books London Ltd, 2008. 212pp, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 156655). More
