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    Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
    Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
    Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
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    Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples

    By Friedrich Perzynski and Stanley Appelbaum

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    Combining elements of dance, drama, music and poetry, the performances of Japanese No theater are a highly stylized form of entertainment. Accompanying the sumptuous costumes worn during performances are elaborately carved No and Kyogen wooden masks—major works of art in their own right. This book, based on a classic two-volume German study, presents a wealth of illustrations and information relating to these magnificent theatrical devices.
    A new, informative introduction and extensive captions derived from the original text and newly translated, accompany the heart of the book--more than 120 full-page plates depicting museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, demons, and monsters, beautiful women, feudal lords, mad characters, and supernatural beings. All 303 illustrations from the original two-volume work are included.
    A unique introduction to classic Japanese theater for Western theatergoers, this volume will also serve as an excellent reference for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of No drama.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 21, 2012
    ISBN9780486141282
    Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples

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      Japanese No Masks - Friedrich Perzynski

      Copyright

      Note, Introduction, and captions copyright © 2005 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2005, contains all 303 illustrations from the two-volume work Japanische Masken: N und Ky gen, ski, originally published in Berlin in 1925 by Walter de Gruyter & Co. The illustrations on Dover pages 9, 11, 12, 84, and 109 originally appeared in color. An abridged and adapted translation of the original text, in the form of an Introduction and expanded captions, was prepared specially for this edition by Stanley Appelbaum, who also furnished the Note to the Dover Edition.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      ski, Friedrich.

      [Japanische Masken. English. Selections]

      ski; edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum.

      p. cm.

      An abridged and adapted translation of the original text . . . published in Berlin in 1925 by Walter de Gruyter.

      9780486141282

      masks. I. Appelbaum, Stanley. II. Title.

      PN2924.5.N6P4713 2005

      792’.0952—dc22

      2004065739

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      44014103

      www.doverpublications.com

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      NOTE TO THE DOVER EDITION

      INTRODUCTION

      The N Stage and accessories

      Masks in Historical Sequence

      Illustrated Catalog of Mask Types

      A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN SALL FIELDS OF INTEREST

      NOTE TO THE DOVER EDITION

      gen masks are major sculptural works in their own right, and numerous Japanese-language works, scholarly and/or pictorial, are devoted to them; yet, like all art forms originally created for a specific purpose and milieu, they can be properly appreciated only with a knowledge of their background. One of the still unsurpassed European-language studies of these masks (hailed as a monumental contribution when it first appeared, and still prominent in the bibliography of the subject in the 1996 Dictionary of Art, Vol. 17, Grove, N.Y., & Macmillan, London) is the two-volume work Japanische Masken: N und Ky gen ski.¹ A complete translation would be a costly proposition for publisher and purchasers alike, and perhaps not even desirable. Dover has preferred to present a picture book, with as much of the original information as possible contained in new captions and a new Introduction.

      ski was originally making.)

      In these captions, and in the Introduction, the mask-carvers’ names (in full, and in a handy one-word form) and dates are given as they appear in his biographical list of carvers. (There are some inconsistencies in his captions and main text.) His transcription of Japanese names and words has been largely retained.² The identifications of masks and carvers are his. For obvious reasons, ownership information has been omitted.

      ski’s text.

      -play translations that indicate by a bare name what masks the characters are wearing can find a picture and explanation here!). In the German original, all the types were intermingled in a single alphabetical order, and a purely verbal listing by categories was provided separately. In this Dover edition, that listing has been used to reorganize the masks by categories (Boys, Young Men, Mature Man, etc.); they are still alphabetical by type-name within each category. The identifications and names have been retained from the original. The Dover captions include all the information about plays, and the like, from this

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