Kabuki in modern Japan : Mayama Seika and his plays
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Kabuki in modern Japan : Mayama Seika and his plays
(St. Antony's/Macmillan series)
Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1990
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mayama Seika wrote plays for all four of the major theatre genres in modern Japan over a period of 30 years. His life in that theatre and his work for it afford us a unique view of the panorama of theatrical development in Japan since the early years of this century. "Kabuki in Modern Japan" focusses on Mayama's contribution to the vitality of 20th-century kabuki. It discusses his plays both in the context of his playwriting career and as part of the living theatre of Japan. Although Mayama died in 1948, his story is continued into the 1980s with a description of a kabuki production of his most famous plays under the direction of his daughter Mayama Miho.
Table of Contents
- Two apprenticeships
- respectable again
- the playwright and his actor
- playwright, scholar and invalid
- experimentation
- "Genroku Chushingura"
- an end and a beginning
- Mayama Seika in performance
- some theatrical personalities.
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