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Friendly Reminders
1) No Class Meeting on Wednesday(2 April 2014)
2) Test # 2 to be announced later this week (Friday)
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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
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National Bunraku Theater (Osaka)
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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
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Bunraku Music (“Chobo”)
• Visible at side of stage
• Narrator (“Tayu”)- “speaker” in pitched tones
• Shamisen
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Bunraku(Japanese Puppet
Theater)
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Bunraku Puppets
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Bunraku Stage(w/ puppets & puppeters)
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Bunraku(w/ multiple puppets and puppeteers)
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Bunraku Puppet(w/ puppeteers in traditional black)
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Bunraku(w/ master puppeteers [Omozukai] visible)
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Bunraku Puppeteers
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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
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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
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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
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Kotsuzumi
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Otsuzumi
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Noh Drum (Taiko)
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Nohkan
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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