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ASIAN THEATREJAPAN
early period & medieval Japan
EARLY FORMS
• Yamato Period (300–710 C.E.)
• masks, ritual
• Gigaku (died out by Edo period) and Bugaku dance forms
• kagura dances
TRADITIONAL THEATREFORMS
NO (NOH)BUNRAKU
KABUKI
NO (NOH)
• earliest of Japanese Traditional Theatre forms- 14th century C.E.
• incorporates singing, dancing, acting, and mime
• connected to Shinto spiritualism & Buddhism
NOH STAGE
• main playing space under a temple like roof
• a bridge- actors enter from dressing room
• audience on two sides
• placement of musicians, chorus
NOH STAGE
BUNRAKU
• puppet theatre
• narrators chant the story
• shamisen music (plucked instrument)
early Edo period (1603–1868)
BUNRAKU
• complex movements- three puppeteers used to move one puppet
KABUKI• first performed by women -
a shinto priestess - Okuni of Izumo
• women outlawed from performing (1629)
• since 1629 -tradition of men playing all the roles
• shares repertoire of stories/scripts with bunraku
early 1600s C.E.
PLAYS- 2 TYPES
• jidaimono or “historical plays”
• sewamono or “domestic” plays - recount the fates of ordinary people
Shibai Ukie ("A Scene from A Play") by Masanobu Okumura (1686–1764), depicting Edo Ichimura-za theater in the early 1740s
MAIN CHARACTERSOnnagata – female characters portrayed by male actors
Wagoto – male characters played with a feminine/gentle acting style such as romantic leads; close to that of the onnagata roles and more fluid in comparison to the aragoto roles
Aragoto – translates as "rough stuff or business" and refers to the super heroes and villains in kabuki plays, wearing heavily padded costumes and brightly colored face makeup; performed with a broad and bombastic style - dynamic kata.source:
Kabuki
INSPIRED- UKIYO-E
• multi-colored wood block printing
• combines illustration, carving, printing
• popular subjects - landscapes, beautiful women, kabuki characters
• KISS Kabukisource: http://ukiyoeproject.com/project_en.html
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/jacult.arts.drama.macbeth/japanese-culture-scene-from-macbeth-kabuki-style/#.WeblNzOZORs
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/kabuki-the-people-s-dramatic-art-amanda-mattes
Kabuki Actorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdLPtdzunxg
Kabuki, the formhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlTQUzPZU8Y
Bunrakuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4G68civvo8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBslstUPKdk
Noh Theatrehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Oi3C4G1WI