Title: Like clouds or mists : studies and translations of Nō plays of the Genpei War /
Authors: Watson, Michael Geoffrey, 1953-; Oyler, Elizabeth, 1966-; Oyler, Elizabeth, 1966-; Watson, Michael Geoffrey, 1953-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Nō plays Congresses.; Nō plays Translations into English Congresses.; Japan History Literature and the war Congresses.
Abstract: Offers a better understanding of a nexus of stories, characters and arts central to medieval and early modern Japan, and particularly the significant variety of ways plays of the nō theatre portray them.
Contents: Zeami, a wandering ghost, and the Lotus Sutra: the story of Giō and Hotoke from the Heike Monogatari to Nō / Roberta Strippoli -- Giō / translation and introduction by Susan Matisoff -- Hotoke no hara (Buddha field) / translation and introduction by David T. Bialock -- How Giō saves her father's life: innovations to the Giō legend in Bangai Nō / Michael Watson -- Ro-Giō (Giō at the prison) / translation and introduction by Michael Watson -- The battle of Tonamiyama in Bangai Nō / Elizabeth Oyler -- Kiso / translation and introduction by Ivan Grail -- Kurikara otoshi (The fall from Kurikara) / translation and introduction by Michael Watson -- Sanemori: departure from oral narrative / Akiko Takeuchi -- Sanemori / translation and introduction by Mae J. Smethurst -- Shunzei tadanori: its background and related plays / translation and introduction by Michael Watson -- Genzai Sanemori / translation and introduction by Mae J. Sweethurst --