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In one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to a deepening crisis in 1840s by sponsoring a huge, "once-in-a-generation" noh performance—the largest performance ever held. This is the first Western language book on Edo period noh and its use by the shogun, an essential addition to the scholarship in Japanese theater and the cultural history of early modern Japan.

Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater

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    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 31/03/2010
    ISBN13: 9781933947082, 978-1933947082
    ISBN10: 193394708X

    Number of Pages: 336

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    In one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to a deepening crisis in 1840s by sponsoring a huge, "once-in-a-generation" noh performance—the largest performance ever held. This is the first Western language book on Edo period noh and its use by the shogun, an essential addition to the scholarship in Japanese theater and the cultural history of early modern Japan.

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