Research Catalog

Title

Kurokawa Nō : Shaping the Image and Perception of Japan's Folk Traditions, Performing Arts and Rural Tourism / by Eike Grossmann.

Author

Grossmann, Eike.

Publication

Leiden : Global Oriental, 2013.

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Details

Description

lxiv, 297 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Subjects

• Festivals > Japan
• Nō

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Historical Development of Kurokawa No 25 -- Routes of Transmission-Kurokawa No, Shugendo, and No Theatre 25 -- Early History of Kurokawa No-The Legends 30 -- Kurokawa No During the Edo Period 34 -- The Patronage of the Daimyo of Shonai-Performances in Tsuruoka Castle 34 -- Benefit No (kaicho no) and other Performances 37 -- Making a Difference-Kurokawa No and Performances of other Troupes 42 -- Edo Period Village Life and the Meaning of the Shrine Guild 44 -- Preserving an 'Authentic Tradition'-Disputes within the Village 46 -- Kurokawa and the Village Administration of the Domain 50 -- Kurokawa No during the Meiji and Taisho Periods 53 -- Changes in the Wake of the Meiji Restoration (1868) 53 -- Performances Outside the Village Since the Meiji Period 56 -- 2 Contemporary Village Structure and Forms of Representation 61 -- Kurokawa's Shrine Guild and the No Guilds 62 -- Guild Membership and Guild Leadership 65 -- Hereditary Positions 68 -- Households and Individuals 73 -- Mediating and Competitive Aspects between the Lower and the Upper Guild 75 -- Village Life and the Festivals 78 -- Men-Actors and Musicians 79 -- Women-'Invisible' Supporters 83 -- Children and Young Actors 86 -- Community Life as a Rite de Passage 88 -- The House of Office of the Fan Festival 89 -- 3 Festivals and Events of Kurokawa No 97 -- Festivals and Folk Traditions 98 -- Meaning, Structure and Organization-A Brief Definition 98 -- Approaching Festival Time from a No Theatre Perspective 105 -- Festival 'Stages'-The Kasuga Shrine and the Ogisai 108 -- The Fan Festival 112 -- The Beginning of the Festival and the 'Climbing up to the Shrine' 112 -- Preparing the Tofu and the Mirror Rice Cakes, Inviting the Deities and Receiving a Messenger from the House of Office 114 -- The Descent of the Deities and their Arrival at the Houses of Office 117 -- Preparing the Divine Symbols, Banquets, and the Assembly of the Guilds 120 -- Preparing the No Stage at the House of Office and the All-night Performances 123 -- Heading back to the Shrine, Performances and Competitions in the Shrine 127 -- Other Rituals of the Ogisai 132 -- Staging the Community and Self-representation During the Fan Festival 133 -- Smaller Annual Shrine Festivals 137 -- Decreasing Participation and Shifting Meanings 139 -- Participating in Events-Maintaining a 'Sacred' Image 143 -- The Candle No and the No on Water-Attempts to Attract more Visitors 146 -- 4 Kurokawa NO as a Folk Performing Art 153 -- Notions of Folk Performing Arts and their Terminology 154 -- The Academic Discourse 154 -- Defining a Folk Performing Art 158 -- The 'Essence' of Folk Performing Arts 161 -- Classification Systems-Categorizing Kurokawa No 166 -- Governmental Preservation Measures-Kurokawa No as a Cultural Property 171 -- The Cultural Properties Protection Law and the Festival Law 174 -- The Academic Discourse on the Protection of Cultural Properties 179 -- (Re)Acting as a Cultural Property 183 -- Preservation Societies (hozonkai) and New Transmission Spaces 183 -- Preserving an Authentic' Performance Style-The Example of Kurokawa Kyogen 190 -- 5 Tourist Images of Kurokawa No 197 -- Cultural Tourism in Japan 198 -- Defining Cultural Tourism, Cultural Tourists and the Tourist Gaze 203 -- Cultural Tourism, Authenticity, and Nostalgia 209 -- 'Hometowns' (Furusato) as Tourist Sites and Tourist Campaigns 212 -- Folk Performing Arts and Tourism 216 -- Nostalgic Notions of Kurokawa No 223 -- The Heal' and 'Authentic' Kurokawa No 223 -- Types of Visitors 226 -- Visitors to the Fan Festival 229 -- Participating at the House of Office-Creating a static Audience 232 -- Impact of Tourist Visits on Kurokawa No 236.

ISBN

• 9789004223349 (hardback : acid-free paper)
• 9004223347 (hardback : acid-free paper)
• 9789004248083 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012047613

OCLC

822560025

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library