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no or noh

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Japanese drama play, bare sets. extravegant gestures and music compensate for lack of set

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jo-ha-kyū (preparation-development-fast finale)

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nō theater characteristic (preparation-development-fast finale), all actions or efforts should begin slowly, speed up, and then end swiftly (Japanese music)

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yūgen

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an aesthetic term used specifically in relation to Nō to mean the profound beauty of the transcendental world, including mournful beauty involved in sadness and loss.

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hana (flower)

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Zeami’s (original practitioner of Japanese Noh theatre) metaphorical way of expressing the effect and power of the actor on stage, saw the flower as a sophisticated and complicated thing

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waki

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supporting actor; actor serves to support the main actor, and thus performs the roles of waki and waki-tsure. Depending upon the play, they might be Shinto priests, Buddhist monks, or samurai, but they are always roles portraying real, living men. The waki does not wear a mask.

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wakizure

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waki companion

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shite

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One of the main characters in the No theatre who is challenged by the Waki character. This character may be gods, ghosts, women, animals, or warriors.

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shidai

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used during the entrance of various characters

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nanori

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Waki gives background information on himself and where they are. Shite does the same in an emotional way, inaugurates shift from disguise to true persona. self naming bascially

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michiyuki

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long passage of imagry to evoke a long journy

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mondo

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rapid fire question and answer between Zen master and his student

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mai

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climactic dance with much deeper meaning in Noh play

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dream play

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entire noh play made up of dream or ilusion

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reality play

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stories that deal with real life actions or realities

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woven brocade bridgeway

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bridge in play, metaphoric for connecting the spiritual world and the temporal world (main stage)

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Vantage from Vision Apart

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refers to the performer’s ability to separate themselves from their own body and performance and evaluate their technique objectively; to see with the same mind that the audience does, by achieving a vantage on your own attitude you can clearly see yourself, what’s to your right/left, and behind, attaining a view on yourself you cannot see

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haiku

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Japanese form of poetry. consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables - traditionally evoking images of the natural world

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Jumping Sound Deity

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awarded name for Matsu Basho for his famous haiku about the frog jumping into the pond.

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haiga

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typically painted by haiku poets (haijin), and often accompanied by a haiku poem, based on simple yet profound observations of the everyday world

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high low

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classical and colloquial. sounds like someone is speaking

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diction books of the floating world

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describes the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of Edo-period Japan;

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puppet theatre

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appeals to urban masses

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real life pieces, domestic plays

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type of puppet play- Love suicide plays

  • Psychological portrayals
  • Conflicts between duty (giri) and feelings (ninjō)
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period pieces, historical plays (jidaimono)

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type of puppet play with historical subjects and characters

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love suicide play
suicide play in which two people (typically lovers) commit suicide... Takubei and his wife in The Love Suicides
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giri
social duty and obligation to others | -----------typicall in puppet plays and Monzaemon plays
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ninjō
human feelings
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tayu
highest ranking courtesan, could refuse men if they wanted, classy
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kabuki
gorgeous costuming stylized acting spectacular effects… showed samurai characteristics but also allowed for countervailing feelings
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quick-change (hayagawari)
quick change.. actors revealed themselves and took off their masks.
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omoiire
expressive acting and gesture in Kabuki theatre
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flower path (hanamichi)
wooden plank used in Kabuki theatre
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kabukimono
lean or tilt, refers to how the kabuki mono would carry themselves, they flaunted the authorities of the early Edo period. preformed uniquely by men
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samisen
stringed instrument made out of cat gut
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Pleasure Quarters
red light district in Edo period
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nativist learning (kokugaku)
Japanese learning | -tale of Genji
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Chinese learning (kangaku)
elite samurai class had extraordinary respect for chinese learning
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mono no aware
awareness of impermanence | -seen in parodies of edo period and in Kitchen
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policy of seclusion
foreign relations policy allowing no outside visitors in or no japanese people leaving under the penalty of death
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rational principle
exemplified the duties to one's parents and loyalty to master, demanded for literature to be didactic or dismissed
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Way of sexual connorsuiership
guide to the pleasure quarters
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love of women
Pleasure Quarters. | The belief romance was found to be outside marriage, and actually with prostitutes
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love of young boys
Recognized boys as the symbol of youth and beauty and sought the ideal of maleness within them Sensei and narrator of kokoro
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4 bushidō seppuku
bushido describes the way of samurai and honor
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harakiri belly mortification
the act of committing suicide by using a sword to slice alongside the abdomen horizontally, then removing internal organs, and waiting to die -was preceded by 3 poems and shots of saki
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fan seppuku (ogi-bara)
someone else preforms the ritual suicide on the person being killed
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Great Kantō Earthquake (1923)
massive earthquake that struck the Kanto region, destroying Tokyo. over 100,000 deaths
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aesthetics (bigaku)
bigaku is Japanese aethetics, presence in japanese literature
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sabi
appreaciation for the traditional and the worn, for instance and unkept house or chipped pottery
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political conversion
Japanese term referring to the ideological reversal of numerous Japanese socialists who, between 1925 and 1945, renounced the left and (in many cases) embraced the "national community
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Japanese Orient
what it meant to be japanese - contrast between the east and the west - not being a really positive term nowadays - exoctizes the east
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Decadent School
Post war writers. had a cynical view of traditional Japan
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yōkan
praised for its ability to absorb light. In Praise of Shadows, he relates Yokan to western chocolate because it lacks light
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alcove (tokonoma)
Japanese reception style room that was used for hanging art... little light typically a dark space. Westerners liked light.
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Katsura Detached Palace (
Japans largest treasure. detached palace surrounded by gardens in Kyoto.
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Tōshōgū Shrine
ango thought it was vulgar. ornate shrine for Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Arashiyama
district outside Kyoto. Ango discusses Arashiyama theatre
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Ryōanji
zen temple in Kyoto
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Kosuke Prison
Prison Jun’ichiro said in the Praise of Shadows was the only building that every aspect served its purpose Ex: the columns on the building weren’t built to be pretty but to hold the building together.
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pure literature
high brow literature... had to follow certain rules or standards. emphasized artistic merit
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mass literature
literature for everyone. pop culture references. generated money not artistic merit
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Indras Net
metaphor used to illustrate emptiness, dependent origination, and interpenetration in Buddhist’s philosophy

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