Noh editions
If the play is not in the usual collections, or cannot be quickly located, there are print
sources available to find what editions are available, e.g.:(1) Takemoto Mikio ➁ᮇᖷኰ and Hashimoto Asaoᶣᮇ᭽⏍. Nô kyôgen hikkei ⬗≤ゕᚪᦘ (Gakutôsha, 1995), p. 53-120 (⬗షဗධの)(2) Nogami Toyoichirô 㔕୕㇇ୌ㑳, ed., Nôgaku zensho ⬗ᴞධ᭡. Revised ed.
(Tokyo Sôgensha, 1979-81), 3:235-279 (ㅬ᭜᭜┘⥪の)*This is very much a personal memo of resources that I use. I welcome comments and suggestions.
Michael Watson watson@meijigakuin.ac.jp

A quick guide to editions of noh plays, in approximate reverse order of date
The UTAHI Hangy� bunko (༖㨮ᩝᗔ) site
As of July 2004, all but 14 of 253 plays now online
http://www.kanazawa-bidai.ac.jp/~hangyo/utahi/
Carefully edited by team of scholars from Nonomura Kaiz�ô, ed., Yôkyoku
sanbyakugojôshû (Nihon meicho zensh�ûkankôkai, 1928)㔕ࠍᮟᠼ୔ᰧゖ ࠖㅫ᭜୔Ⓤ஫༎␊㞗ࠗ ᪝ᮇྞⴥධ㞗ษ⾔ఌ
Arrangement of plays: traditional (beginning with Okina, Takasago...)http://www.kanazawa-bidai.ac.jp/cgi-bin/inputlog.pl

SNKB vol. 57
Nishino Haruo, ed. Yôkyoku hyakuban. SNKB (Iwanami, 1998)こ㔕᫋㞕ᰧἸ ࠖㅬ᭜Ⓤ␊ࠗ ᩺᪝ᮇཿ඼ᩝᏕኬ⣌57
Arrangement of plays: traditional (beginning with Takasago)
This is an edition of Kan’ei 7 (1630) hanpon rather than a collection of texts in thecurrent repertoire or an editor’s choice of texts.

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NKBZ vols. 33-34
Koyama Hiroshi, Satô Kikuo, Satô Ken’ichirô, eds. and trans. Yôkyokushû. 2 vols.
NKBZ (Shôgakukan, 1973-75).
ᑚᒜᘧᚷఫ⸠ႌ஁㞕ఫ⸠೸ୌ㑳ᰧἸ࣬ゼࠖㅬ᭜㞗ࠗ୕ୖ ᪝ᮇཿ඼ᩝᏕධ㞗 ᑚᏕ㤃
Arrangement by play: play category.
SKS (3 vols.)

Ito Masayoshi, ed. Yôkyokushû (Shinchô, 1983-88)௿⸠ḿ⩇ᰧἸ ࠖㅬ᭜ࠗ᩺₳ཿ඼㞗ᠺ㸝᩺₳㸞
Arrangement of plays: gojûon order. Text based on Kôetsu utaibon.
Detailed annotation, supplementary notes.
Yôkyoku 250banshû sôsakuinÔtani Tokuzô, ed. Yôkyoku nihyakubanshû sakuin. 2 vols. [text and concordance].
Kaidai sakuin sôkan 6. (Akaoshôbundô, 1988).
ኬㆺ⠔ⶮ⥽ ࠖㅬ᭜஦Ⓤ஫༎␊㞗⣬ᘤࠗ 㸝㉝ᑹ↯ᩝᇸ㸞Concordance in one volume, with play/page/dan reference to the unannotated text of250 plays in the second volume. The text also contains small black-and-whitephotographs of performances. For reference rather than reading (the text of the plays isalso somewhat muddy), but extremely useful. The concordance is well arranged andclearly laid out. Phrases are broken down by context: the entry for hajime yori (forexample) gives seven phrases with initial or medial use of hajime yori.
Tanaka Makoto, ed. Mikan yôkyokushû. 53 vols. (Kotenbunko, 1963-1978)⏛୯ඒ⥽ ࠖᮅษㅬ᭜㞗ࠗ 㸝ཿ඼ᩝᗔ㸞
http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/cgi-bin/shsproc?id=BN01364777
http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/cgi-bin/shsproc?id=BN04233695
The first series (ḿ) consists of 31 volumes, the second (⤾) of 22. The collection
includes both bangai nô from early printed texts and plays written in thetwentieth-century. No overall arrangement of plays. Some volumes put plays in gojûonorder, others follow the base text. No headnotes and no list of roles, but brief notes onplays are included at the beginning of volumes.

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NKBT vols. 40-41
Yokomichi Mario and Omote Akira, eds. Yôkyokushû. 2 vols. NKBT (Iwanami, 1960)ᶋ㐠ⴑ㔓㞕࣬⾪❮ ࠖㅬ᭜㞗ࠗ୕ୖ ᪝ᮇཿ඼ᩝᏕኬ⣌ ᒷἴ᭡ᗉPlays arranged by author (attributed), or period.
An electronic text for scholarly use has been produced by NIJL (ᅗᩝᏕ◂✪㈠ᩩ㤃)
Nihon koten zensho, 3 vols.
Nogami Toyoichirô and Tanaka Makoto, Yôkyoku shû, 3 vols. Nihon koten zenso(Asahi Shinbusha, 1949-1957)㔕୕㇇ୌ㑳よㄕ࣬⏛୯ඒᰧἸ ࠖㅬ᭜㞗ࠗ୕୯ࠉ⏛୯ඒᰧἸ ࠖㅬ᭜㞗ࠗୖ
Annotated text of 133 plays edited from manuscripts and kokatsuji edition.
Arrangement by play category (type 1 . Vol. one (jô) contains plays of category on, twoand three. Vol. two (chû) contains 43 plays of category four. Vol. 3 (ge) contains playsof category five, followed by a supplement (hoi) containing more plays of all categories.
The grand total is:
category 1:

12uibanme-mono / wakinô-mono

catetory 2:

12shura-monocategory 3:

28katsura-monocategory 4:

60

yobanme-monocategory 5:

21gobanme-mono / kirinô-mono

TaikanSanari Kentarô, ed. Yôkyoku taikan. 6 vols. (Meiji Shoin)ఫᠺㅤኯ㑳ⴥࠖㅬ᭜ኬふࠗ㸝᪺἖᭡㝌㸞
Arrangement of plays: gojûon order of titles (as written in historic kana).
All plays accompanied by introductory matter, headnote annotation, and modernJapanese translation.
KYS (Kôchû Yôkyoku sôsho)Haga Yaichi and Sakaki Nobutsuna, eds. Kôchû Yôkyoku sôsho. Three vols.
Hakubunkan: 1913-15; reprint Rinsen shoten: 1987.

noh editions (2004.07) Watson p. 3 of 5ⰶ㈙▦ୌ࣬ఫఫᮄಘ⥐ᰧヂ ࠖᰧヂㅬ᭜ཽ᭡ࠗ 㸝༡ᩝ㤃ࠉ々⿿㸯⮣ᕖ᭡ᗉ㸞
Annotated edition of 545 noh texts. One of the most accessible and readable collectionsof bangai plays. Headnote annotation.
Arrangement of plays: gojûon order of titles (as written in historic kana).
Vol. 1: ࠵࣭ࡆយᑋᚽಘ to ᶊᏬ

188 playsVol. 2: ࡈ࣭࡛≇ to

171 playsVol. 3: ࡝࣭ࢅ௯ක to ዥἃụ (+⿭㐿) 189 plays

㫵㏛total:548 plays

Kokumin bunko “Yôkyoku zenshû”
Furuya Chishin, ed. Yôkyoku zenshû. 2 vols. (Kokumin bunko kankôkai, 1911).
ཿㆺ▩᩺⥽ ࠖㅬ᭜ධ㞗ࠗ୕ୖ 㸝ᅗẰᩝᗔษ⾔ఌࠉ᪺἖㸩㸩ᖳ㸞
Unannotated edition. Arrangement of plays: none (?). Most, if not all, of the texts involume 1 are still in the repertory and available in more recent additions, but volume 2
may be of use to those studying bangai nô texts. It prints one hundred of bangai nôselected from two Edo collections, the three-hundred play collection of Jôkyû� 3 (1686)
and the four-hundred play play collection of Genroku 2 (1689). When reading texts inthe larger, annoted KYS collection (see above), it is worth comparing the text given
here, as there are said to be textual differences in the editions.

Though not giving information about editions of individual plays, the following isreliable print source about a large number of plays:
Nishino Haruo and Hata Hisashi, eds. Nô kyôgen jiten (Heibonsha, 1999)こ㔕᫋㞕࣬⩒⏛᫛⥽ ࠖ⬗࣬≤ゕ஥඼ࠗ ᩺ゖቌ⿭㸝ᖲฉ♣㸞
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/biblio/noh-trans.html
also contains information about plays that may be useful
Further information about the UTAHI project.
The Hangyô� bunko (༖㨮ᩝᗔ) site has sponsored a long-term project to digitize thenoh editions (2004.07) Watson p. 4 of 5

text of an edition of the 253 plays.
http://www.kanazawa-bidai.ac.jp/~hangyo/utahi/
As of July 2004, only 14 plays had not been edited. The base text is: Nonomura Kaiz�ô,ed., Yôkyoku sanbyakugojôshû (Nihon meicho zensh�ûkankôkai, 1928) [㔕ࠍᮟᠼ୔ᰧゖࠉࠖㅫ᭜୔Ⓤ஫༎␊㞗ࠗ᪝ᮇྞⴥධ㞗ษ⾔ఌ). Details of the project and information
about the texts and how they should and should not be used are given on the hanrei
page. In a nutshell: free to use but not to sell, best used for SEARCHING rather thanreading. The individual plays can be accessed on a page that also indicates the stage ofediting reached.* The entire corpus can be searched using a single page--with patience
you can copy it all to a single word processor file but it comes to over 2000 pages in
Word... http://www.kanazawa-bidai.ac.jp/~hangyo/utahi/yo.txt* If you have mojibake problems, switch to "Japanese (EUC)" encoding. Mac OSX "Safari"users will note a problem with the display, but the strike-through disappears if you copy andpaste the text into another application.

as of 2004.07.19

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