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
