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A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-06140-1. Odanaka, Akihiro; Iwai, Masami (16 July 2020). Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-62000-3.
Noh is one of the four major types of Japanese theatre.. Traditional Japanese theatre is among the oldest theatre traditions in the world. Traditional theatre includes Noh, a spiritual drama, and its comic accompaniment kyōgen; kabuki, a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku, puppetry; and yose, a spoken drama.
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
The convention of wearing black to imply that the wearer is invisible on stage is a central element in bunraku puppet theatre as well. Kuroko will wear white or blue in order to blend in with the background in a scene set, for example, in a snowstorm, or at sea, in which case they are referred to as "Yukigo" (雪衣, snow clad) or "Namigo" (波衣, wave clad) respectively.
These transformations often result in truncated (or "backclipped") words and words with extra vowels inserted to accommodate the Japanese mora syllabic structure. [ 5 ] : 70 Wasei-eigo , on the other hand, is the re-working of and experimentation with these words that results in an entirely novel meaning as compared to the original intended ...
The American missionary James Curtis Hepburn edited A Japanese and English Dictionary with an English and Japanese Index (和英語林集成, Shanghai, American Presbyterian Press, 1867), with 20,722 Japanese-English and 10,030 English-Japanese words, on 702 pages. Although designed to be used by missionaries in Japan, this first Japanese ...
The form is a more specific and singular one than the generic term of "mass theatre" might imply. Furthermore, there are those within the sphere of taishū engeki who object to the plebeian denotation of the word taishū (the masses). Nevertheless, for lack of a better term, the moniker of taishū engeki continues to be widely used.
Glossary of Japanese theater; Kanteiryū, a lettering style invented to advertise kabuki and other theatrical performances; Kyōgen, a traditional form of Japanese comic theatre that influenced the development of kabuki; Oshiguma, an imprint of the face make-up of kabuki actors, as artwork and souvenir; Noh, a traditional form of Japanese theatre