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	History of theater - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Renaissance brought the genius of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and the Baroque theater produced Molière.
		Theater began in Asia during a period of 1000 years, roughly from 350 to 1330 A.D., a time when there was little theater in Europe.
		The first form of theater to flourish was known as Bunraku.
	open-encyclopedia.com /History_of_theater (988 words)

	Learn more about History of theater in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Theater began in Asia during a period of 1000 years, roughly from a.d.
		In the Middle Ages in Europe, theater was a vital part of people's civic, economic, and religious lives.
		The Renaissance brought the genius of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and the Baroque theater produced Moliere.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/hi/history_of_theater_1.html (1019 words)

	Kabuki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of kabuki began in 1603, when Okuni (she called herself a priestess of Izumo Taisha) began performing a new style of dance in the dry river beds of Kyoto.
		Kabuki theater and ningyō jōruri, the elaborate form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, became closely associated with each other during this period, and each has since influenced the development of the other.
		Kabuki stages and theaters have steadily become more technologically sophisticated, and innovations including revolving stages and trap doors, introduced during the 18th century, added greatly to the staging of kabuki plays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kabuki (1212 words)

	facts JPN-kabuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Today, the number of Japanese who appreciate noh proper is far smaller than that of those who favor kabuki, but those kabuki plays adapted from or inspired by noh plays enjoy a wide popularity and constitute an essential portion of the entire kabuki repertoire.
		The curtain in the kabuki theaters consists of red-brown, fl, and green cotton stripes, and is not raised as in the Western theaters, but drawn aside.
		It is noteworthy that much of the dramatic technique in a kabuki performance is not what the contemporary actors have acquired by themselves, but is the fruit of accumulated efforts contributed by their ancestors for many generations back, and handed down to them by the principle of family inheritance.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/japan/kabuki.html (2947 words)

	NAMED CAMPAIGNS-WORLD WAR II
		By September 1941 the Japanese had practically completed secret plans for a huge assault against Malaya, the Philippines, and the Netherlands East Indies, to be coordinated with a crushing blow on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.
		Japanese seizure of Attu, Kiska, and Agattu of the Aleutian Islands in June 1942 was strategically unimportant, but the occupied islands did provide the Japanese with a base for raiding Alaska and limiting air and sea operations in the North Pacific.
		Since it was presumed that the Japanese had massed their principal ground, air, and naval strength in Luzon, United States strategists had planned to gain a foothold first in southernmost Mindanao, then move to Leyte, and finally to Luzon after air supremacy had been gained over that area.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/apcmp.htm (7447 words)

	Embassy of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Japanese traditional dance was introduced via Korea in 612, and the ancient forms of gagaku (court music) and bugaku (court dance) evolved in the 7th and 8th centuries.
		Japanese music was often used as an integral part of traditional drama such as kabuki and noh; however, its use in religious ceremonies and festivals is also significant.
		Japanese dolls are traditional toys in a different sense; the dolls are customarily used as decorative pieces or as ceremonial and festival displays.
	www.us.emb-japan.go.jp /english/html/faq/04/culture.htm (3149 words)

	THEATER, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 051123
		The theaters of Lycurgus replaced the original wood of the Dionysus theater with stone, reaffirming the importance of theater in the city of Athens' civic and religious life, which continued well into Hellenistic times, culminating in the Romans' added changes to the structure and including the addition of the Bema.
		Broadly speaking, elements of theater are found in virtually every culture, and modern theater as practiced in America is the result of numerous borrowings and adaptations of earlier forms of ritual and spectacle from ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia.
		This paper, which traces the history of theater and religion, explains that the influences of religion on theater were phenomenal because the theater consistently has reflected the changes in content and ideology of the society's popular religions.
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=theater (3830 words)

	An Introduction to Kabuki\| Japan Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is ironic that many Japanese people take pride in kabuki as being one of Japan's cultural treasures, but similar eccentric behavior in actual life is highly disapproved of.
		In Japanese society where conformity is highly valued, deviating from the norm requires a tremendous amount of energy.
		In the refined theater of contemporary kabuki, the critical subversive spirit that was so central to its origins has been compromised.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/kabuki.html (1388 words)

	Articles on Art
		Bunraku is the Japanese form of puppet theater.
		Japanese consider it as a serious art form and not as entertainment for children.
		Noh theater, compared to kabuki, is the more refined, aristocratic form of Japanese theater.
	www.artelino.com /forum/articles.asp?mey=9 (340 words)

	Japanese theater — what a riot - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Japanese theater, on the other hand, was better known for the controversial nature of the action onstage.
		This happened in 1905 when the Japanese consul general in Hawaiçi, Miki Saito, was severely criticized for ignoring reports of mistreatment of immigrant Japanese laborers on sugar plantations.
		Japanese theater, even among amateurs, could produce riots without half trying.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Jun/09/ln/ln42abob.html (477 words)

	Kabuki Pathfinder
		Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that emerged at the beginning of the Tokugawa era (1600-1868).
		Kabuki continues to be a major force in modern Japanese theater, with many contemporary actors tracing their lineage back to the Tokugawa era.
		Although this source may seem intimidating to novices, as all the entries are in romanized Japanese, there is cross-indexing for English words (e.g., the entry "stage" directs readers to go to the Japanese equivalent, "butai").
	ils.unc.edu /dpr/path/kabuki (1259 words)

	Japanese Culture: Japanese Arts Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bunraku is the Japanese art of puppet theater and storytelling, which has had an effect on Kabuki theater.
		A history, gallery, and demonstration of Gyotaku, a special type of Japanese printmaking that uses an actual fish as a block that is pressed onto rice paper or silk.
		Japanese Popular Culture in the Classroom is an excellent teaching resource that includes lesssons that introduce students to anime and manga as a vehicle for exploring Japanese culture.
	www.midwestworldfest.org /japan/frames/3_a_arts.html (1880 words)

	H-Net Review: Patricia Pringle on Half a Century of Japanese Theater I: The 1990s Part 1
		By the 1990s, many younger Japanese were questioning the official wartime memory that Japanese intellectuals and ordinary Japanese people were forced against their will to co-operate with Japan's military.
		The discriminatory statements, which occur in conversation with the Korean maids who do not contradict their employers, resonates with some contemporary Japanese explorations of cultural identity, which posit Japanese culture as unique and asserts that Japanese aesthetic tastes are paramount and Japanese language alone possesses literariness.
		It is only the lower-class Japanese maids serving this family of liberals who openly voice their sense of superiority over the Koreans.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27047999021863 (2084 words)

	... About Japan: Traditional Theater
		One extensive outline of all these as practiced in their earliest forms can be found in the extensive web pages devoted to the theater arts in Mediveal Japan, a course taught at Nebraska Wesleyan University in the Spring of 1998.
		Doi Junichi, a Professor of Classical Japanese Literature at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, maintains a site including a number of illustrated examples of puppets and a section outlining the construction of an "unmarried female puppet".
		So, too, the Tonda Traditional Japanese Puppets have an interesting story behind their origins -- and their own attempts to maintain the tradition into the next generation.
	www.csuohio.edu /history/japan/japan12.html (538 words)

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		The Edo Period saw the rise of professional hanashika based in theaters, and the art became so popular that in the city of Edo (pre-modern Tokyo) there was typically one such theater in every neighborhood.
		Japan's best-known traditional puppet theater, Bunraku is performed by a team consisting of a narrator, a shamisen (type of stringed instrument, not unlike the biwa) player, and puppets about 1.3 to 1.5 meters tall, each one manipulated by 3 puppeteers.
		The term "Bunraku" itself came into use late in the 19th century, after the name of the Bunrakuza, a theater in Osaka famous for performances of the genre.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Temple/5105/sjcc-11.html (1081 words)

	Japanese Bunraku Puppets Tonda Bunraku Puppet Troupe Shiga, Japan puppetry
		The course provided students the opportunity to study Japanese language, culture, and theatre in Japan and train in traditional puppetry under the tutelage of the members of the Tonda Troupe.
		The history of the Japanese puppet theatre known commonly today as Bunraku began sometime before the year 1600 when puppet manipulation, the tradition of oral narrative, and the music of the samisen were combined in a dramatic form that came to be the most popular entertainment in Japan.
		Originally the biwa, or Japanese lute, had been used to accompany such narrative, but in the middle of the sixteenth century a new three-stringed instrument was introduced to Japan from Okinawa.
	www.asianinterstage.com /tonda (2458 words)

	Kabuki
		Kabuki is a traditional Japanese form of theater with its origins in the Edo period.
		Kabuki, in contrast to the older surviving Japanese art forms such as No, was the popular culture of the townspeople and not of the higher social classes.
		They speak in a monotonous voice and are accompanied by traditional Japanese instruments.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2090.html (269 words)

	Japanese Theater Resources
		This report is a preliminary attempt to bring together some of the important reference materials available in the C.V. Starr Library for students of Japanese theater.
		Volume 6 includes a chronology of Western and Japanese theater, famous actor genealogies, and a list of specialized theater terminology in English, French, German, and Japanese, a concise annotated bibliography, as well as indexes in Japanese and foreign languages.
		This is a useful work for students of Japanese theater to consult since many of the works listed have been totally eclipsed by new scholarship, which has failed to cite these early and sometimes pioneering efforts.
	www.columbia.edu /~hds2/BIB95/02theater_edelson.htm (2680 words)

	Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Bunraku
		Bunraku, or Japanese puppet theater, is probably the most developed form of puppetry in the world.
		When the National Theater opened in 1966, it was the first permanent home bunraku had had in almost 150 years.
		Although there are occasional increases in popularity, the real problem lies in the fact that the craftsmen who create the puppets and costumes are dying out and the long apprenticeship necessary to take their place does not appeal to today's young generation.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/bunraku.shtml (580 words)

	Japanese Historical Fiction (AEAJ 389, #7747) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Course description: We will explore a number of Japanese performance forms (dance, drama, music) that were all developed in the years before 1868.
		Japanese Nō Dramas, edited and translated by Royall Tyler.
		Paper: 30% Students are asked to write a paper (7-10 pages) on a topic of their choice related to Japanese drama, dance, music, etc. Please consult with the instructor about your topic before beginning your write-up.
	www.albany.edu /eas/eaj389c.htm (698 words)

	Japan HQ : Japanese Drama
		Background of the plays (which have both English and Japanese versions in mostcases), and a bio of Professor Munakata, a Noh actor and director of the Kanze...
		Historical development of the Noh theater, with an emphasis on the dance elements.
		An overview of the Japanese dramatist and the period in which he wrote.
	japanhq.com /japanesedrama/index.php (701 words)

	Noh Theater \| Japanese Drama \| Musical Theater of Japan \| Questia.com Online Library
		...influenced the development of the noh theater by providing precedents for its...the development of the classical noh theater, but it also hastened the demise...kyogen...
		...A History of Japanese Theater I: Noh and Kyogen and A History...A history of Japanese theater 1: Noh and Kyogen and A history...Sarugaku, 128 Ennen Noh, 128 Nohgaku...14...
		Japanese Theatre ("Noh, the Classical Lyric Drama of Japan" begins on p.
	www.questia.com /library/music-and-performing-arts/theater/noh-theater.jsp (739 words)

	Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Kabuki Theater
		Like the work of Shakespeare, the old stories and characters in the plays are all familiar to those in the know even though the language itself is often antiquated and hard to follow.
		But as far as dipping your toe into this particular cultural pond is concerned, a half hour spent at the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo, Shin-Kabukiza in Osaka or the Minamiza in Kyoto is probably all you'll need.
		At Kabukiza, for example, there is a separate box-office for seats on the 4th floor, where you can enjoy a single part of the program for as little as 500 yen.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/kabuki.shtml (925 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Japanese WWW guide
		Japanese is taught at the Unversity of Oregon by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.
		Center for Applied Japanese Language Studies - Japanese Language teaching information pertaining to the PASS (Proficiency-based Admissions Standard System) legislation being phased in in the state of Oregon.
		The National Institute for Japanese Language - An institute founded to provide the organization and facilities for scientific research on the Japanese language.
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/japanese.html (581 words)

	Japanese Drama \| Traditional Japanese Theater \| Kabuki Theatre of Japan \| Questia.com Online Library
		Yet the Japanese had not seen drama until the middle of the...the stage upon which No drama is performed.
		Japanese drama derived both its essence and form...adopted by many later forms of Japanese drama, including nomai Araki 1978...impetus...
		...recurring figure in Japanese literature and drama -- a hero of ambivalent...slight variations in Japanese fiction and drama of a later era.
	www.questia.com /library/music-and-performing-arts/theater/drama/japanese-drama.jsp (727 words)

	Japanese - Language Study at Mountain Brook City Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Japanese children spend their free time in all kinds of ways.
		Gives several home-style Japanese recipes, some of which were adapted to use ingredients available outside Japan.
		Cranes for Peace began as a project to collect paper cranes to be sent to Hiroshima for the 50th anniversary of the bombing.
	www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us /tech/japan.htm (372 words)

	Kyodo World News Service: Japanese theater to perform for children on divided Timor Island+@ HighBeam Research
		Japanese theater to perform for children on divided Timor Island+
		(Kyodo) _ A Japanese theater will perform in Indonesia's West Timor and in independent East Timor next week in an effort to rehabilitate the mental health of children affected by conflict, a Japan Foundation spokeswoman in Jakarta said Thursday.
		Theater Kazenoko will perform a "Chiisai Gekijou" (small theater) drama in the West Timor town of Atambua, which is located near the border with East Timor, on Monday and in the East Timor capital Dili next Thursday, Diana Nugroho told Kyodo News.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:106449228&refid=holomed_1 (218 words)

	Syllabus for Asia 06
		They get outside the theater by discussing and writing responses to the plays and doing a group presentation that looks at the broader social context of a particular theater.
		We should also consider that works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Steinbeck, for example, count as Japanese theater, and that butoh is performed internationally.
		By the end of this course, students will be conversant with all major forms of Japanese theater, understand diverse ways of interpreting what is Japanese and what is theatrical about these forms, and be ready to go further in their study and enjoyment of theater and of Japanese culture.
	www.unc.edu /~bardsley/japantheater/syllabus.html (1116 words)

	Japan Links - Bunraku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Second, the musicians were moved into a visible location and became part of the spectacle.
		Finally, and probably most important, Chikamatsu, the "Shakespeare" of Japanese theater, began to write for bunraku.
		He had achieved fame with his kabuki plays, and when he became interested in bunraku it rapidly increased the popularity of this art form.
	www.ric.edu /pamental/japan/bunraku.html (167 words)

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