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Friendly Reminders. No Class Meeting on Wednesday (2 April 2014) Test # 2 to be announced later this week (Friday). Japanese Theater. Kabuki – Traditional Theater (popular) Exs. Kabuki – YouTube (a good introduction) Centre Stage: Kabuki – YouTube (overview)

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  1. Friendly Reminders No Class Meeting on Wednesday(2 April 2014) Test # 2 to be announced later this week (Friday)

  2. Japanese Theater • Kabuki – Traditional Theater (popular)Exs. Kabuki – YouTube (a good introduction)Centre Stage: Kabuki – YouTube (overview) • Bunraku – Puppet TheaterEx. YouTube - Bunraku theater in Osaka • Noh – Traditional Theater (elitist)Ex. Noh Theatre - YouTube

  3. National Bunraku Theater (Osaka)

  4. Bunraku • Oldest theater tradition (roots in Heian period) • Originates in late 17th century (joins 2 traditions)- traveling story-tellers w/ Biwa accompaniment- traveling puppeteers • 1st Bunraku theater – 1684 in Osaka • Plays about “ordinary” people- stories of merchant class (Osaka - merchant city)- stories of Shinju (“love suicides”, often factual) • Audience – traditionally middle-class • Life-like puppets and “realistic” stories

  5. Bunraku Music (“Chobo”) • Visible at side of stage • Narrator (“Tayu”)- “speaker” in pitched tones • Shamisen

  6. Bunraku(Japanese Puppet Theater)

  7. Bunraku Puppets

  8. Bunraku Stage(w/ puppets & puppeters)

  9. Bunraku(w/ multiple puppets and puppeteers)

  10. Bunraku Puppet(w/ puppeteers in traditional black)

  11. Bunraku(w/ master puppeteers [Omozukai] visible)

  12. Bunraku Puppeteers

  13. Bunraku on YouTube • YouTube - Bunraku - Classical Japanese puppet art - Screener • YouTube - Bunraku Demonstration Male Head • YouTube - Bunraku Demo @ Gion Corner • YouTube - Japanese Bunraku puppets • YouTube - Bunraku theater in Osaka • YouTube - Bunraku at the Gion Corner

  14. Noh • Most elite and stylized Japanese theater • Associated primarily w/ Warrior class (samuri) • Developed c. 1192-1333 (Kamakura period) • Formalized c. 1300s (Kannami Kiyotsugu)- intended to make popular forms more serious • Strong Buddhist element- denial of self ends suffering (transcendence)- ritual focuses attention

  15. Noh (2) • Minimalist aesthetic (less is more) • Very stylized acting technique- not naturalistic- small motions signify major events • Use of masks (course web site for examples) • Music – Hayashi (fixed Noh ensemble)- 3 drums- flute

  16. Kotsuzumi

  17. Otsuzumi

  18. Noh Drum (Taiko)

  19. Nohkan

  20. Noh Theater on YouTube • Noh - YouTube • YouTube - Noh Theatre • YouTube - Noh Play - Osaka, Japan - July 2006 • YouTube - Noh Play "Tamura“ • Atsumori-the dance.mp4 - YouTube

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