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Read Ebook: The Girl and Her Religion by Slattery Margaret
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 325 lines and 46492 words, and 7 pagesPAGE Acknowledgement v Introduction xv KABUKI ORIGIN OF KABUKI YAKUSHA SHIBAI SAKUSHA PLAYS MEIJI KABUKI KABUKI TO-DAY Contemporary Kabuki 367 Bibliography 377 Index 379 Onoe Kikugoro as a brave samurai woman mounted on a white velvet stage steed 22 Nakamura Matagoro, the leading boy-actor of the Tokyo stage in the r?le of a girl-pilgrim, O-Tsuru 36 Announcing Ceremony. Kojo, or announcement ceremony, in which the central figure is Ichikawa Danjuro. The modest actor whose name is to be changed or rank raised bows low, hiding his face from view. 40 The last of the Ichikawa family, the granddaughter of Ichikawa Danjuro, the ninth 42 Theatre Treasures exhibited. At the Nakamura-za, founded by Saruwaka Kansaburo, the gifts given to him by the Shogun were considered as treasures of the theatre and exhibited on certain anniversaries with much respect, the actor holding the gold sai, or battle signal, and covering his mouth with a piece of paper lest his breath soil it. 69 Ichimura Uzaemon, the thirteenth, as Yasuna in a posture dance descriptive of a man who has become demented because of the loss of his wife 82 Onoe Matsusuke as Komori Yasu, or Bat Yasu, so called because of the birth-mark on his cheek which resembles a bat. A bold, bad man of Yedo 99 Matsumoto Koshiro, of the Imperial Theatre, in the character of Townsend Harris, the first American Minister to Japan. A photograph of the intrepid Kentucky Colonel is on the actor's dressing-table 111 Nakamura Utayemon, leading actor of the Tokyo stage, in the r?le of Yayegaki-hime, the young princess in the play Nijushiko, or Twenty-four Filial Persons 132 Three onnagata of Asia: in the centre Mei Ran-fan of the Peking stage, to the left Nakamura Utayemon, the leading onnagata of Japan, and on the right Nakamura Fukusuke, the son of Utayemon and one of the most fascinating impersonators of women in Tokyo 136 Nakamura Jakuyemon of Osaka, an onnagata who imitates the acting of the marionettes 140 Yoshida Bungoro, a doll-handler of the Bunraku-za of Osaka, who has devoted his life to the management of female marionettes 144 A scene from Chushingura, as played by the marionettes in the Bunraku-za of Osaka 148 O-Sato, heroine of a ballad-drama of the Doll-theatre. Reproduced from an oil painting by an Osaka artist and shown in a Tokyo art exhibition. The doll-handlers are grouped behind like shadows 150 Yakusha making a round of New Year calls. In the foreground a member of the Ichikawa family, with two pupils and his servants, following behind an onnagata similarly attended. The kites in the picture show the favourite pastime of children during the New Year holidays. 154 Matsumoto Koshiro in the r?le of an otokodate, or chivalrous commoner, ready to defend the oppressed lower classes from the blustering two-sworded samurai 160 Nakamura Kichiyemon as Kumagae, a warrior of Old Japan 166 To mark the opening of the theatre season when actors, playwrights, and musicians were engaged, there was a gathering called Seeing-for-the-First-Time. 175 Advertising the Play. During the performances two men garbed in long trailing feminine attire, their heads covered with cotton towels, attracted the passers-by by their verbal advertisement. One imitated the lines of the actors, and the other handed out wooden tickets. 177 Face Lights for the Actors. When the theatre became dark it was necessary to illumine the actor's face with candle-light. Here property men are holding out candles on the ends of pliant rods that the face of the dancer may be seen, and candles form the footlights. The performer is the serpent princess in the disguise of a beautiful dancer in the piece Dojo-ji. 181 Ceremony of welcoming an actor. It represents the onnagata, Segawa Kikunojo, returning to the Nakamura-za in Yedo after an absence of two years in Osaka. 182 Nakamura Ganjiro of Osaka as a melancholy lover in a play of the people 186 Nakamura Fukusuke of Tokyo in an onnagata r?le 215 The largest N? theatre in Japan, that of Onishi Ryotaro in Osaka, a modern structure combining architectural features representing the different periods of N? theatre development 220 Kataoka Nizaemon, the eleventh, as Yuranosuke, the leader of the Forty-seven Ronin, in the play Chushingura 228 Nakamura Ganjiro of Osaka in his favourite r?le, that of Izaemon, the lover of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama, and played for two centuries by the Kabuki actors 256 Matsumoto Koshiro, the seventh, as Watonai, the grotesque hero of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama, Kokusenya Kassen, or the Battle of Kokusenya. The inner garment is bright red studded with brass, the lower purple with a design of twisted white rope 262 Matsumoto Koshiro, the seventh, as Benkei, the warrior-priest in Kanjincho. He performed in this r?le when the Prince of Wales visited the Imperial Theatre 264 Sawamura Sojuro, the seventh, of the Imperial Theatre, as Togashi, the keeper of the barrier, in Kanjincho, Kabuki's music-drama masterpiece 266 Morita Kanya, the thirteenth, son of the aggressive theatre manager of Meiji, as Yoshitsune, the young hero of the music-drama, Kanjincho 268 Onoe Baiko as the Wistaria Maiden, in a descriptive dance 272 Onoe Kikugoro, the sixth, as the transformation of a maid into a white fox, in a descriptive dance, Kagami Shishi, or the Mirror-Lion 274 Nakamura Ganjiro of Osaka as Genzo, the village schoolmaster in Terakoya, or The Village School, by Takeda Izumo 278 Ichikawa Chusha as Matsuomaru in Terakoya , who sacrifices the life of his son that the Michizane heir may survive 280 Jitsukawa Enjaku of Osaka as Gonta in the sacrifice play, Sembonzakura, by Takeda Izumo 282 Ichikawa Sadanji as Sadakura, the highwayman, in the play Chushingura 284 The Harakiri scene from Chushingura 286 Scene from Yotsuya Kaidan, or The Ghost of Yotsuya, by Namboku Tsuruya. Onoe Baiko is seen as the disfigured O-Iwa, and Onoe Matsusuke the kind old masseur who holds up the mirror that she may learn the truth 294 Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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