[PDF.58vg] Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater

Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater

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 | #4107309 in Books |  Columbia University Press |  2013-04-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.90 x6.10l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| great stories|By Nancy L. Staub|These are fabulous gripping if horrendous narratives. They are brilliant translations and informative notes. Especially valuable for puppet scholars and enthusiasts.| |The tales included in this collection fill a significant gap in our understanding of the intersection of itinerant Buddhist storytelling tradition and the early puppetry in Japanese religion and society. Kimbrough's introduction is informative and his translat

Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, they range from stories of cruelty and brutality to tales of love, charity, and outstanding filial devotion, representing the best of early Edo-period literary and performance traditions and acting as important precursors to the Bunraku and Kabuki styles of t...

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