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- Japanese performing
arts: an annotated bibliography
Main Author: Matsui, Masato... [et al.].
Publisher: Honolulu, Hawaii : Center for Asian and Pacific Studies,
Council for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii.
Publication year: 1981.
Subject(s): Performing arts--Japan--Biography.
Format: Book
Summary: This book lists and describes the holdings in Japanese
performing arts of the Thomas Hale Hamilton Library, University
of Hawaii at Manoa. The holdings, some of the finest in the country,
consist of a wide variety of materials, including drama texts, stage
scripts and musical scores, on every form of Japan's performing
arts.
Location: Watson Library
Call Number: Z3308 .L5 J36 1981
Dance
- Classic dancing in Japan : outstanding contemporary
dancers
Main Author: Tateishi, Ry¯uichi.
Publisher: Tokyo : Tokyo Shob¯o
Publication year: [1969]
Subject(s): Dance--Japan; Dancers--Japan.
Format: Book
Summary: This book introduces well-known and talented Japanese
dancers who preserve the traditions of the Japanese dancers as
a traditional art.
Location: Music & Dance Library
Call Number: GV1695 .T313
- An outline history of the Japanese dance
Main Author: Fujima, Kanj¯ur¯o.
Publisher: Tokyo : Kokusai Bunka Shink¯okai (The Society
for International Cultural Relations)
Publication year: 1937.
Subject(s): Dance--Japan.
Format: Book
Summary: This book introduces the history and technique of the
Japanese classic dance. The original lecture and demonstrations,
reproduced in this brochure, were given on November 3, 1935, as
one of the 1935 Autumn Term Kokusai Bunka Shink¯okai Series
of Lectures on Japanese Culture.
Location: Music & Dance Library
Call Number: GV1695 .S8
Martial Arts
- The
illustrated guide to karate
Main Author: Morris, P. M. V.
Publisher: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Publication year: 1979.
Subject(s): Karate.
Format: Book
Summary: This book is an easy guide to karate. It includes
fundamental techniques, basic movements, training and strategy
and tactics for a tournament. Through extensive illustrations,
a reader can learn karate step by step.
Call Number: GV1114.3 .M66
- Japanese
martial arts and American sports : the historical and cultural
background on teaching methods : proceedings of the 1996 United
States-Japan Conference
Editors: Kiyota, Minoru & Sawamura Hiroshi.
Publisher: Tokyo : Nihon University
Publication year: 1998.
Subject(s): Sports--Cross-cultural studies--Congress; Martial
arts--Philosophy--Congress.
Format: Book
Summary: This volume is a collection of papers and the record
of discussion presented at the second U.S.-Japan Conference on
Japanese Martial Arts and Western Sports held at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison on 6-8 August 1996. The book investigates
the historical and cultural impact on the development of Japanese
martial arts and Western sports as well as the ways in which they
have contributed to enhance personal growth among male and female
college students.
Call Number: GV706 .U55 1996
- Martial
arts teachers on teaching
Editor: Wiley, Carol A.
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Frog : Distributed by North Atlantic
Books
Publication year: 1995.
Subject(s): Martial arts--study and teaching.
Format: Book
Summary: This book consists of 26 essays from a wide range of
martial arts teachers. These teachers represent seven styles of
karate, tae kwon do, hapkido, aikido, naginatado, cuong
nhu, kajukendo, t'ai chi ch'uan and two styles of kung
fu.
Location: Watson Library
Call Number: GV1102.7.S85 M37
- Women
in Aikido
Main Author: Siegel, Andrea.
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books
Publication Year: 1993.
Subject(s): Aikid¯o; Self-defense for women.
Format: Book
Summary: This book is a collection of interviews with twelve women
black belts. It is about women and power, women in their relationships
with others and themselves, and women realizing the internal power
that will enable them to change their lives.
Location: Watson Library
Call Number: GV1114.35 .S56 1993
- Women
in the Martial Arts
Editor: Wiley, Carol A.
Subject(s): Martial Artists--United States, Self-defense for women
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books
Publication Year: 1992.
Subject(s):Self-defense for women; Martial arts--United States.
Format: Book
Summary: In exploring their experiences in martial arts training,
twenty-three women offer their insights about practice on and
off the mat.
Location: Watson Library
Call Number: GV1111.5 .W65 1992
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Music [Gagaku]
[Other Japanese Music]
- Gagaku
- Gagaku
: court music and dance
Author: Togi, Masataro.
Publisher: New York : Walker/Weatherhill.
Publication Date: 1971.
Subject(s): Gagaku; Japanese Arts--Japan--History.
Format: Book
Summary:
The author
shows the special historical and social context in which gagaku
developed. He also speaks of the unusual aspects of some
of the instruments of the ensemble and notes a few points
about performance.
Location:
Music & Dance Library
Call Number: ML340 .T6413 1971
- Gagaku
: the court music of Japan [videorecording]
Author: Malm, William P., Sidney D. Brown and Eugene Enrico;
produced and directed by Eugene Enrico and David Smeal.
Publisher: Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma.
Publication Date: 1989.
Subject(s): Gagaku; Music--Japan.
Format: Visual Material
Summary:
This video
allows the viewer to enjoy the haunting sounds of the court
music of Japan and to see the magnificent customs and masks
of its stately dances. The host is professor of ethnomusicology
at the University of Michigan, who introduces the instruments
of gagaku and the musicians who play them. Also featured
is Togi Suenobu, a gagaku master at UCLA and Dr. Sidney
Brown, professor of Asian studies at the University of Oklahoma
who explains the historical roots of gagaku. Performances
by the imperial court orchestra in Tokyo illustrate the contrasting
styles of gagaku.
Location:
Music & Dance Library-Media & Reserve Desk
- Call Number: video ML340 .G253 1989
- Gagaku:
the imperial court music of Japan [sound recording]
Publisher: New York : Lyrichord
Publication Date: [1964]
Subject(s): Gagaku; Music--Japan.
Format: Musical Sound Recording
Summary
Gagaku,
in Japanese, means elegant, refined or correct music. Brought
from India, China, and Korea as long as 1500 years ago, it
eventually became the court music of Japan and has been preserved
under the patronage of the court since the sixth century.
Because of this long and carefully maintained tradition, visitors
to Japan may hear the oldest existing form of orchestral
music in the world, played very much as it was nearly a thousand
years ago.
Location:
Music & Dance Library-Media & Reserve Desk
- Call
Number: St-L 4858
- Music
of a thousand autumns : the T¯ogaku style of Japanese
court music
Author: Garfias, Robert.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
Publication Date: [1975]
Subject(s): T¯ogaku--History and criticism; Music--JapaGagaku;
Music--Japan--History and criticism.
Format: Book
Summary:
This book
looks at the present practice of gagaku in terms of
its development from older practice. The author shares his
personal view and emphasizes those aspects of gagaku
which have most intrigued him.
Location:
Music & Dance Library
- Call Number: ML340 .G42
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- Other Japanese music
- Japanese music
Author: Tanabe, Hisao.
Publisher: Tokyo : Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai
Publication Date: 1959.
Subject(s): Music--Japan--History and criticism.
Format: Book
Summary:
The author, Tanabe Hisao is a professor of Tokyo University
of Arts. He has a thorough knowledge of Japanese music as well
as the vast field of all Oriental music.
Location: Music & Dance Library
- Call Number: ML340 .T16 J3x 1960
- Nagauta: the heart of kabuki music
Author: Malm, William P.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
Publication Date: [1973, c1963]
Subject(s): Music--Japan--History and criticism; Kabuki.
Format: Book
Summary:
This book is an introductory study of nagauta, one of
the major musical traditions of Japan.
Location: Music & Dance Library
- Call Number: ML340 .M33 1973
- Three pieces: work of koto [sound recording]
Main Author: Sawai, Kazue.
Publisher: Japan : My Record
Publication Date: 1992.
Subject(s): Koto music; Plucked instrument ensembles.
Format: Musical Sound Recording
Summary
The recordings include Three dances by John Cage (1945/1989),
arranged by Kazue Sawai, Malvina (1989) by Christian
Wolff, and Concerto for Koto and orchestra (1989)
by Takashi Kato.
Location: Music & Dance Library
- Call Number: COM DIS3350
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- Theater
[
Bunraku (puppet theater)] [Kabuki]
[Noh/Ky¯ogen] [Rakugo]
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Kabuki
- Kabuki
Author: Toita, Yasuji & Yoshida Chiaki.
Publisher: New York : Weatherhill ; Kyoto : Tankosha ; New York
: Distributed in the U.S. by Walker and Co.
Publication Date: 1970.
Subject(s): Theater--Japan; Japanese drama--History and criticism;
Kabuki.
Format: Book
Summary:
The book explains the basic conventions of kabuki with
the aid of illustrative photographs from the performances of
the great traditional actors.
Location: Watson Library
Call Number: PN2924.5.K3 T59813 1970
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- Noh/Kyogen
- Noh : the classical theater.
Main Author: Nakamura, Yasuo, 1919-, Translated by Don Kenny.
Publisher: New York : Walker/Weatherhill
Publication Date: [1971]
Subject(s): N¯o.
Format: Book
- Summary:
This book explains the development of noh, including
actor training, costumes, music and stage movement.
- Location: Watson Library
- Call Number: PN2924.N6 N3513 1971
- N¯o and ky¯ogen in the contemporary
world
Editor: Brandon, James R.
Publisher: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press
Publication Date: 1997.
Subject(s): N¯o--Congress; Ky¯ogen--Congress.
Format: Book
- Summary:
- This book contains selected essays originally
presented at the international conference, "N¯o and
Ky¯ogen in the Contemporary World, " held on the
Manoa campus of the University of Hawaii in 1989, as well
as interviews with a noh master and a ky¯ogen
master.
- Call Number: PN2924.5.N6 N525 1997
- N¯omai dance drama : a surviving spirit
of medieval Japan
Main Author: Asai, Susan Miyo.
Publisher: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
Publication Date: 1999.
Subject(s): N¯omai (Dance drama)
Format: Book
- Summary:
N¯omai dance drama is an artistic
expression that combines the sacred, communal, and cultural
spheres of life in communities in the northern Japanese district
of Higashidorimura. It is a performing tradition that provides
an identity to agriculturally based villages and represents
a traditional way of life.
Location: Watson Library
Call Number: PN2924.5.N65 A82 1999
- On the art of the n¯o drama : the
major treatises of Zeami
Main Author: Zeami, 1363-1443.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1984.
Subject(s): N¯o.
Format: Book
- Summary:
- This book is full of "dew-like gems" valuable
to a wide range of readers--from the serious student of Japanese
culture to the professional theater practitioner seeking to
enlarge his understanding of his craft. Zeami was a genius
in the art of noh as an actor, dancer, playwright,
and producer.
- Location: Watson Library
- Call Number: PN2924.5.N6 Z4213 1984
- The training of Noh actors ; and The dove
Main Author: Griffiths, David.
Publisher: Australia : Harwood Academic Publishers
Publication Date: 1998.
Subject(s): N¯o--Study and teaching.
Format: Book
- Summary:
- This book reflects the author's practical
work and draws upon his research into the secret world of
the noh of Japan and the Masquerade of Nigeria, the
comic style of the comedia dell'arte and the training of actors
through mask in Britain. The series also includes his three
written masked plays called The Dove, Please Be
Gentle and Touch, which transform and test the
results of his experiments into theatrical practicality.
- Location: Watson Library
- Call Number: PN2924.5.N6 G75 1998
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- Rakugo
- Danshi! Japan's
favorite traditional "rakugo" storyteller [videorecording]
Publisher: [S.l.] : Take Shob¯o
Publication Date: 1995.
Subject(s): Rakugo; Japanese wit and humor; Japanese drama (Comedy)
Format: Visual Material
- Summary
The famous rakugo storyteller, Takekawa Danshi, presents
two of his favorite tales in Japanese, with English subtitles.
- Location: Watson Library
- Call Number: PN2924.5 R34 D36 1995
- Rakugo
in English [videorecording]
Publisher: [Tokyo] : Toshiba-EMI Ltd.
Publication Date: 1990.
Subject(s): Rakugo; Japanese wit and humor.
Format: Visual Material
- Summary:
Rakugo
storyteller Katsura Shijaku performs two rakugo pieces
in English. Yamamoto Masaaki gives a demonstration of the elements
of rakugo.
- Location:
Watson Library
- Call Number:
PN2924.5. R34 R34 1990
- Rakugo,
the popular narrative art of Japan
Main Author: Morioka, Heinz.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard
University : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
Publication Date: 1990.
Subject(s): Rakugo
Format: Book
Location: Watson Library
Call Number: PN2924.5.R34 M6 1990
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