...Eric C. Rath Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku . By Paul S. Atkins . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies . 2006 . xiii , 293 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Noh can be described...

... hitherto received relatively little attention from American historians of Japan. KYU HYUN KIM Harvard University Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku. By A R T H U R H . T H O R N H I L L III. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xv, 232 pp. $39-95...

..., her focus shifts to two critical treatises by the seminal sarugaku playwrights and actors Zeami Motokiyo (ca. 1363–ca. 1443) and Konparu Zenchiku (1405–ca. 1470), respectively, to discover “the circumstances under which the two explored the relationship among poetry, allegory, and noh” (p. 48...

... Zenchikushū , 42–43 ( Tokyo , 1915 ) . The Zenchikushū contains the theoretical essays on the Nō of Komparu Zenchiku, who is also known as Zenchiku Ujinobu. Born in 1405, Zenchiku became Zeami's protegé and son-in-law, distinguishing himself both as performer and playwright. He died sometime between 1469...

... Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku. By A R T H U R H . T H O R N H I L L III. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xv, 232 pp. $39-95. With Six Circles, One Dewdrop, Arthur Thornhill has contributed to Westernlanguage scholarship on Muromachi Japan much more than just...

... many noh scholars, such as Hare. The structure of Hare's translation, for instance, has followed a general outline of Omote's Japanese work Zeami Zenchiku . Omote's scholarship is highly regarded and appears to be an important source of reference in Hare's book . Hare sometimes disagrees with Omote...

... poetics of Shunzei and Chomei to the no aesthetics of Zeami and Zenchiku. The third essay by Royall Tyler resists the traditional interpretation of no as a monologic "one-man show" for the manifestation of the shite {shite ichinin shugi) by drawing attention to the complex dynamics between shite and waki...

... religion and art. A strikingly original poet in his own right, as Zen master to the renga poet Socho, No playwright Komparu Zenchiku, and tea master Murata Shuko, his seminal influence on late Muromachi period culture is undeniable. He was at the forefront of the movement that saw, to borrow Sanford's...

... the collection away from religion into the intimately related area of Noh theater. She examines the development of a set of secret teachings as one of a number of strategies employed by a troupe leader, Konparu Zenchiku, seeking to enhance the fortunes of his troupe in competing for patronage. Bernhard Scheid...

... and poetry, including a 1264 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES balanced discussion of the rumored love between Shikishi and Teika that inspired Komparu Zenchiku's No play Teika (fifteenth century). The most important point stressed in the introduction that is underscored in the translations themselves...

... benefited from a clearer presentation of the origin and value of plays used in performance. Other traditions also profit from fuller treatment; for example, no, which is broadened by a new discussion of Zenchiku's plays. In the case of kabuki, the author has moved his main discussion of Chikamatsu Monzaemon...

... figure in the history of both Japanese religion and art. A strikingly original poet in his own right, as Zen master to the renga poet Socho, No playwright Komparu Zenchiku, and tea master Murata Shuko, his seminal influence on late Muromachi period culture is undeniable. He was at the forefront...

... on the Nine Levels with its extensive use of Zen-derived imagery; the Shugyoku tokka ("Finding Gems and Gaining the Flower a late work written for the benefit of Zeami's son-in-law and artistic successor, Komparu Zenchiku; and the Sbudosbo ("Learning the Way Also translated are the Nosakusho (or Sando...

... in these works than in most Chinese sources, she is deified at the same time. In such Japanese works as Taiheiki (A Chronicle of Universal Peace, ca. 1371) and Yokihi (Yang Kuei-fei), a Noh drama by Konparu Zenchiku (1405 68), Yang Kuei-fei is represented as having been a heavenly maiden in a former existence...

... .” Two Lines: Ages , Spring 1998 , 7 – 19 . Atkins Paul S. 2006 . Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku . Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan . Brown Delmer M. , and Ishida Ichirō . 1979 . The Future and the Past: A Translation...

... of Economic Reforms [BAI G A O ] 570 566 ANNUAL VOLUME CONTENTS 1367 T H O R N H I L L , Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetk World of Komparu Zenchiku [JOSEPH D. PARKER] T O T M A N , Early Modern Japan [ Y U N T A N G ] UNGER and BLACKBURN, Japan's 2merging Global Role [STEVEN F. JACKSON] Korea...

...; the Japanese audience, its composition and characteristics. MN23 (1968), 90-101. 4919. Dunn, Charles James. Comparative dramatics and Japanese dramatic history. International Confer- ence of Orientalists in Japan. Transactions no. 12 (1967), 17-30. 4920. Komparu Zenchiku. Yohiki. Tr. by Carl Sesar, with a note...

... universitaircs [1963] 190 p. illus. (Classiques du cinema, 14) (Apr./June 1964), 174-210. ORTOLANI, BENITO. Komparu Zenchiku: Ugetsu und die Metaphysik der N6-Schauspielkunst. Maske und Kotburn 10 (1964), 676-691. . Shingeki: the maturing new drama of Japan. (In: Roggendorf, Joseph, ed. Studies in Japanese...