Japan's Traditional Performing Arts
The Complete Guide to 200 Stages, Theatres & Performance Traditions
- AuthorAki Wakamatsu
- PublisherTakikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC
- CategoryJapan Guides & Culture
- ISBN1990000145902
- FormatEPUB ebook
About this book
A country that performs.
Japan's Traditional Performing Arts is the complete guide to 200 stages, theatres and performance traditions: the ghost plays and comedies of Noh and kyogen; the star actors, revolving stages and painted faces of kabuki; the puppets of bunraku, the lone storyteller of rakugo and the ancient court music of gagaku; the all-night kagura and town-filling Bon dances of the folk tradition; and the theatres, mask carvers, wig makers and preservation societies that keep it all alive.
Every entry gives the performance itself, its background and tradition, the art as it stands today, and a Watching & Checking note directing you to the official source for current schedules and tickets — because this book describes character, not this month's programme. Written and produced in Japan by Aki Wakamatsu.
Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.
