WORKS Flashcards
Atsumori
- Zeami
- play based on Atsumori’s death. Atsumori was a samurai that was killed in the Genpei war.
- example of a dream play. The ghost of Atsumori wants to kill the person that kills him but finds peace with his death.
Birds of Sorrow
- Zeami
- birds cry to find their offspring, hunters mimic this cry to hunt the birds. Soto no Hama, the main character is a hunter that ends up in hell for his life of killing
- appealed to a more ordinary audience
Sotoba Komachi
Ono-no-Komachi was famous beautiful lover. She promised Shosho if he visited her 100 days in a row she would acept him as his lover. On the 99th day, he dies on his way to her house. She is possessed by his spirit, but eventually regains sanity and wants to reach enlightenment.
Notes on 9 levels.
- symbolic theater
- the flower of the upper 3 levels and then middle levels and bottom 3 levels. people learn middle then upper then bottom
Dog Pillow Book
parody on Sei Shonagon’s Pillow book
-Edo period
Fake Tales
word for word parody of the Tales of Isle
-reflections on contemporary life
Life of a sensuous man
- Ihara Saikaku
- Yonosuke dosowned at 19 for reckless ways. Father dies and he inherits fortune, goes to island of women
Five Women who Loved Love
- Ihara Saikaku
- five wome seeking love and willing to die for it. all but one die
What the season brought to the almonac maker
included in Ihara’s Five Women Who Loved Love. Main character is Osani, almanac maker’s wife. Executed for affair with male servant
The Love Suicides
- Monzaemon
- puppett play
- complications of duty and feeling.
- Tokubei loves Ohatsu, works for his master who says in exchange for money he can marry his daughter. the mother ends up stealing the money. Later, his friend tricks him into giving him money. The lovers commit suicide
The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa Chikamatsu
- monzaemon
- Otane has affair with Gen’emon, her husband forces her to kill herself.
- based on contemporary scandal
- historical and domestic drama
- relationship between duty and feelings
Yatsuya Ghost Stories
- Tsuruya Nanbuku
- Oiwa and lemon are husband and wife. lemon poisoned Oiwa, lived and then he pushed her off a building because he fell in love with Ohana. Oiwa ghost then haunts lemon
Kokoro:
book of 3 parts that follows relationship between Sensei and his friend, the narrator
The Incident at Sakai
- Mori Agai
- recounts the death of 9 soldiers who chose to die from ritual suicide as punishment for killing french soldiers .
- dramatizes conflict between codes of conduct and modern reform
Hagakure
commentary of Bushido
The Praise of Shadows
-Jun’ichiro
essay on Japanese aesthetics
-discusses West and East in terms of light and darkness
A personal view of Japanese Culture
Sakaguchi criticizes Taut’s discourses on Japanese culture
-embraces modernity
Paradise in the sea of sorrow
ishmure Michiko
- about minimata disease
- written by a women
In a bamboo grove
Tajamaru rapes wife and tries to kill her husband
Patriotism
Yukio Mishima
-lieutenant Takeyama was supposed to kill his traitor military friend, didnt want to so he killed himself in Japanese ritual suicide. wife joined
The Twilight Samurai
Film by Yoji
-follows life of Seibei Iguchi, a low ranking samurai employed as a beurocrat
Minimata: the victims and their world
documentary of minimata disease
Kitchen
Yoshimoto Banana
-mikage struggles to overcome the death of her grandmother, finds comfort in the kitchen. Grows close to her grandmothers friend Yuchi and ends up staying with him and his transgender mother
Tokyo story
depicts older couple visiting children in the city
children are irritated with their parents inability to conform to modern conventions
