Item #169537 Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre. Donald Keene.
Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre
Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre
Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre
Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre
Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre
Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre
Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre

Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1965. Hardcover. Tall, black cloth with gilt lettering and design. BW-illustrated dust jacket with red lettering. 287 + [5] pp. 360 BW plates, 11 color plates tipped in (one as a frontispiece). VG/VG-. Some edge wear to dust jacket. Owner's sticker on half title page. Clean and tight otherwise. Missing CD. Item #169537

A large volume. Photographs by Kaneko Hiroshi, with an introduction by Tanizaki Junichiro. Sections include a list of plates; essay Recollections of the Bunraku Puppets; introduction; The Pleasures of Bunraku; The HIstory of Bunraku; The Texts and the Chanters; The Samison and the Players; The Puppets and the Operators; The Gestures of Bunraku; list of plays; chronology, bilbiography, index; and a score for samisen and chanter, Osono's monologue from Hadesugata Onna Maiginu.

OCLC: 692294

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