Dancing the Dharma : : Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater / / Susan Blakeley Klein.
"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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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; Volume 435 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
Volume 435. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.