Edition: First edition.

Description:

• digital 1.4 m. per second Digital recording
• data file

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-500).
• Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment.
• Original version: xxi, 504 pages : 0061228486 9780061228483 New York : Ecco, c2010.
• UBC Crane Library

Contents:

• Understatements about this string-ball of idle thoughts
• Black hair
• "The mask is most important always" : the Noh performances of Umewaka Rokuro
• Schematics : roles, rules, props
• Malignance and charm : a catalogue of female maks
• A branch of flowers : steps to ineffability
• The dragons of Kasuga : texts, places, histories, masks
• Sunshine at midnight : an interview with Mr. Mikata Shizuka
• Perfect faces : maiden, mask, geisha, wife, princess
• Aya Kudo and the zo-onna : a porn model compared with a Noh goddess
• Her golden lips slightly parted : an image of Kannon
• Crossing the abyss : the three beings of three women
• What is grace? A list and a possible hermeneutic
• Rainbow skirts : the loveliness of Lady Yang
• Jewels in the darkness : the dances of Kofumi-san and Konomi-san
• "She cannot do anything else" : compulsions, costs, achievements
• Suzuka's dressing room : a geisha gets ready
• "They just want to look in the mirror" : Yukiko makes me over
• "I sit with my legs closed" : glimpses of onnagatas
• "There's no ugly lady face" : Katy transforms
• The phallus of Tiresias : what is a woman?
• White arms
• A curtain of mist : understatement and concealment
• In the forest : an apology
• Sun-bright like swords : the beauty of valkyries
• Passing light : Andrew Wyeth's Helga pictures
• Who is the willow tree goddess? Snatches of a play
• Beauty's ghost
• Snow in a silver bowl : an epitaph for Radha's grace
• Beauty's ghost : Ono no Komachi in traditional Noh plays
• Urashima's box : a few thoughts about time
• The decay of the angel : Komachi in the Noh plays of Mishima Yukio
• The moon maiden goes home
• Sunshine on Silla : the unknown
• Pine tree constancy : "Takasago," "Izutsu" and "Matsukaze"
• Kagekiyo's daughter : "Semimaru" and the plays of separation
• Behind the rainbow curtain : going home beneath the skin
• Appendix A : Descriptions of feminine beauty in The pillow book of Sei Shonagon (ca. 1000-1010)
• Appendix B : Descriptions of feminine beauty in some Old Norse sources
• Appendix C : Descriptions of feminine beauty in Sappho and miscellaneous Greek lyric sources
• Appendix D: Proportions of feminine beauty in some classical and Western European sources
• Appendix E : Noh play groups, and plays mentioned.

LCCN: 2010280757

Control Number: 1328143

Subjects:

• Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
• Femininity.
• Geishas.
• Gender identity in the theater -- Japan.
• Kabuki.
• Nō.
• Sex role in the theater -- Japan.
• Women in the theater -- Japan.

Genre: Sound recordings.

Other Authors: BC Libraries Cooperative. National Network for Equitable Library Service, distributor.