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Title Like clouds or mists : studies and translations of Nō plays of the Genpei War / edited by Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson
Published Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 536 pages)
Series Cornell East Asia Series, 1050-2955 ; number 159
Cornell East Asia series ; 159.
Contents Introduction / Elizabeth Oyler -- Zeami, a wandering ghost, and the "Lotus Sutra" : the story of Giō and Hotoke from "Heike Monogatari" to Nō / Roberta Strippoli -- Giō / Susan Matisoff -- Hotoke no hara (Buddha Field) / David T. Bialock -- How Giō saves her father's life : innovations to the Giō legend in Bangai Nō / Michael Watson -- Rō-Giō (Giō at the Prison) / Michael Watson -- The Battle of Tonamiyama in Bangai Nō / Elizabeth Oyler -- Kiso / Ivan Grail -- Kurikara otoshi (The Fall from Kurikara) / Michael Watson -- Sanemori : departure from oral narrative / Akiko Takeuchi -- Sanemori / Mae J. Smethurst -- Genzai Sanemori / Mae J. Smethurst -- Shunzei Tadanori : its background and related plays / Michael Watson -- Shunzei Tadanori ; Introduction / Michael Watson -- Translation / Stephen D. Miller and Patrick S. Donnelly -- Kiyotsune / Carolyn Morley -- Preachers and playwrights : Ikuta Atsumori and the roots of Nō / R. Keller Kimbrough -- Ikuta Atsumori / Lim Beng Choo -- Ko Atsumori / R. Keller Kimbrough -- The Heike, the Nō, and Kyōgen Zatō plays / Carolyn Morley -- Nasu (Kyōgen) / Carolyn Morley -- The Nō play Shigehira / Paul S. Atkins -- Shigehira / Paul S. Atkins -- Morihisa and the cult of Kannon at Kiyomizudera / Naoko Gunji -- Performing Kannon's grace : the Nō Morihisa / Shelley Fenno Quinn -- Morihisa / Shelley Fenno Quinn -- Genre and the Heike plays in Zeami's Go on / Tom Hare -- Rokudai no utai (The Song about Rokudai) / Tom Hare -- Nō as political allegory : the case of Haku Rakuten / Susan Blakeley Klein -- Haku Rakuten / Susan Blakeley Klein -- Epilogue. The Tale of the Heike in the theater of the twentieth century : three examples / J. Thomas Rimer -- Appendix. Nō plays of the Genpei War, a finding list / Michael Watson ; Part A. Plays listed in the order of episodes in the Kakuichi-bon Heike monogatari / Michael Watson -- Part B. Plays listed in alphabetical order, with bibliography and notes on selected plays / Michael Watson
Bibliography Includes footnotes with bibliographical references, and bibliographical references (pages 519-535)
Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 15, 2020)
Subject Nō plays -- Congresses
Nō plays -- Translations into English -- Congresses
DRAMA / Asian / General.
Nō plays
War and literature
SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Gempei Wars, 1180-1185 -- Literature and the war -- Congresses
Subject Japan
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Oyler, Elizabeth, 1966- editor.
Watson, Michael Geoffrey, 1953- editor.
ISBN 9781942242598
194224259X
Other Titles Studies and translations of Nō plays of the Genpei War