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Japanese Theater: Noh/Kyogen

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JapanKnowledge http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/japanknowledge Icon 

Includes 新版 歌舞伎事典 and 新版 能・狂言事典.

 

Noh/Kyogen Videos in Media Services and Online (English)

Noh Theatre: The Tale of Genji Excerpts (Creative Arts Television, 1957) 27 minutes (From Theatre in Video) Icon

Masks of Arcadia by Dunlop Geoff, in Under the Sun (British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1989) 50 minutes. 黒川能 (From Ethbographic Video Online) Icon

Noh Theatre Performance of Yamanba / 山姥, 1999, kuse section Free online edition from Cornell

Noh Theatre Performance of Yorimasa / 頼政, 1932 Free online edition from Cornell

Noh Scripts in English (Online)

Books in English

Books in Japanese

Noh Manga

Hana yori mo hana no gotoku

Hana yori mo hana no gotoku 花よりも花の如く Main Japanese Collection PN6790.J33 T383 2009

Noh Call Numbers and Subject Headings

Keyword search is unlikely to work well for searching resources on No 能. Your search result will include too much noise. Spelling 能 as Noh may work, but you may miss many good resources whose title romanizes 能 as No. So try call number browse search and subject heading searches as well! 

Call Numbers

  • PL735            Japanese Literature -- Nō
  • PL765            Collection of Nō texts
  • PL792.S4        Works by and about Zeami
  • PN2924.5.N6   Nō performance

Subject Headings

  • : general works and those that deal with the presentation of Nō plays on the stage.
  • Nō plays: The text of the Nō plays and works treating of them from a literary point of view.

Japananese language resources are in the East Asian Collection on the 2nd floor and English language resources are on the 5th floor. To check out DVDs in the Media Collection, go to the Service Desk on the 1st floor.

Kyōgen Call Numbers and Subject Headings

Call Numbers

  • PL736             Japanese Literature -- Kyōgen
  • PL766             Collection of Kyōgen texts
  • PN2924.5.K9   Kyōgen performance

Subject Headings

  • Kyōgen: general works and those that deal with the presentation of Kyōgen plays on the stage. Used also for Kabuki kyōgen and Nō kyōgen.
  • Kyōgen plays: The text of the Kyōgen plays and works treating of them from a literary point of view.

Japananese language resources are in the East Asian Collection on the 2nd floor and English language resources are on the 5th floor. To check out DVDs in the Media Collection, go to the Service Desk on the 1st floor.

OCLC WorldCat

WorldCat Restricted Resource: A bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries around the world.

If you are looking for the information about specific repertoire, try searching OCLC WorldCat in addition to InfoHawk and SmartSearch. Sometimes bibliographic records in WorldCat include more detailed table of contents.