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Dancing the Dharma : Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater /

"Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Author Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imper...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Klein, Susan Blakeley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Harvard University Asia Center, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction
  • Part I: Allegory and the commentary tradition in poetry and noh
  • Establishing the frame: Allegory, commentary, narihira
  • Six poetic modes: A medieval understanding of allegory
  • Zenchiku, Meishukushu, and allegoresis
  • Part II: Ise Monogatari commentaries and Noh
  • Early Noh and medieval commentaries on Ise Monogatari
  • A storm of blossoms: An unstable Narihira in Unrin'in
  • Spellbound by blossoms: Oshio as political and religious allegory
  • Color of love: Desire and enlightenment in Kakitsubata
  • Part III: Kokinshu commentaries and Noh
  • Turning damsel flowers into lotus blossoms: Female soteriology in Ominameshi
  • Emerging from the waves: Sumiyoshi as protector of Japan in Haku Rakuten.