Author: Kristine OhkuboPublisher: Kristine Stone Ohkubo
ISBN: 9781088023600
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Rakugo is entertainment for the general public and this is your easy-to-understand general guide.
Author: Kristine OhkuboEiraku's 100 English Rakugo Scripts (Volume 1)
Author: Kanariya EirakuPublisher: Kanariya Eiraku
ISBN: 9781088061688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rakugo, the traditional art of Japanese storytelling, consists of wonderfully rich stories imbued with scenarios from everyday life-capped off with a touch of humor. This book is the first volume, and it includes 35 classic stories.
Rakugo
Author: Lorie BrauPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1461634105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary performance culture: the image, training and techniques of the storytellers, the venues where they perform, and the role of the audience in sustaining the art. Laurie Brau inquires into how this comic art form participates in the discourse of heritage, serving as a symbol of the Edo culture, while continuing to appeal to Japanese today. Written in an accessible manner, this book is appropriate for all levels of student or researcher.
The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan
Author: M. W. ShoresPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108912699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo (1600–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods, it is still popular today, with many contemporary Japanese comedians having originally trained as rakugo artists. Rakugo is divided into two distinct strands, the Tokyo tradition and the Osaka tradition, with the latter having previously been largely overlooked. This pioneering study of the Kamigata (Osaka) rakugo tradition presents the first complete English translation of five classic rakugo stories, and offers a history of comic storytelling in Kamigata (modern Kansai, Kinki) from the seventeenth century to the present day. Considering the art in terms of gender, literature, performance, and society, this volume grounds Kamigata rakugo in its distinct cultural context and sheds light on the 'other' rakugo for students and scholars of Japanese culture and history.
Rakugo, the Popular Narrative Art of Japan
Author: Heinz MoriokaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Rakugo is the traditional Japanese art of storytelling. The stories are also called rakugo, or hanashi, and they are performed by professional narrators called rakugoka or hanashika. The customary place where rakugo stories are told is the vaudeville-type variety called the yose.
Rakugo
Author: Heinz MoriokaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684172764
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Rakugo is the traditional Japanese art of storytelling. The stories are also called rakugo, or hanashi, and they are performed by professional narrators called rakugoka or hanashika. The customary place where rakugo stories are told is the vaudeville-type variety called the yose. This book is divided into three parts, including nine chapters and an epilogue, and also includes notes, three appendices, a bibliography, glossary, and index.
Rakugo
Author: Lorie BrauPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739122464
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Rakugo introduces the storytelling genre of Edo-style rakugo as performed around the turn of the twenty-first century, focusing on the performers' image, training, and techniques and the art's contexts and audiences. Brau argues that, while storytellers' goal of making a hit with audiences sustains the art's vitality, rakugo has come to represent something more than simply popular entertainment: it is also regarded as the cultural heritage to which some Japanese may turn in a nostalgic search for identity.
Sand and Pebbles
Author: Robert E. MorrellPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438413653
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Sand and Pebbles presents the first complete English rendering of Shasekishū--the classic, popular Buddhist "Tale Literature" (setsuwa). This collection of instructive, yet often humorous, anecdotes appeared in the late thirteenth century, within decades of the first stirrings of the revolutionary movements of Kamakura Buddhism. Shasekishū's author, Mujū Ichien (1226-1312), lived in a rural temple apart from the centers of political and literary activity, and his stories reflect the customs, attitudes and lifestyles of the commoners. In Sand and Pebbles, complete translations of Book One and other significant narrative parts are supplemented by summaries of the remaining (especially didactic) material and by excerpts from Mujū's later work. Introduced by a historical sketch of the period, this work also contains a biography of Mujū. Illustrations, charts, a chronology, glossary of terms, notes, an extensive bibliography and an index guide the reader into a seldom seen corner of old Japan. Mujū and his writings will interest students of literature as well as scholars of Japanese religion, especially Buddhism. Anthropologists and sociologists will discover details of Kamakura life and thought unrecorded in the official chronicles of the age.
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
Author: Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014139594X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan.
