Zeami, performance notes
By: translated by Tom Hare.
Contributors: Hare, Tom, 1952-
Series: Translations from the Asian classics
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780231139588; 9780231511414
Subjects: Zeami, -- 1363-1443 -- Translations into English; Nō
Genres: Translations into English.
Notes: Translated from the Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-496) and index.

Poems in Japanese and English.
Table of contents: title: Transmitting the flower through effects and attitudes ; An extract from Learning the flower ; Oral instructions on singing ; A mirror to the flower ; A course to attain the flower ; Figure drawings of the two arts and the three modes ; The three courses ; Technical specifications for setting a melody ; A collection of jewels in effect ; An effective vision of learning the vocation of fine play in performance ; Five ranks ; Nine ranks ; Six models ; Pick up a jewel and take the flower in hand ; Articles on the five sorts of singing ; Five sorts of singing ; Learning the profession ; Traces of a dream on a single sheet ; The flower in... yet doubling back ; Two letters to Master Konparu.