Susan Matisoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 558540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Matisoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Matisoff |
| SIGNATURE | MATISOFF S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Asia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Holy Horrors: The Sermon-Ballads of Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of No Plays of the Genpei War
This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. Essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the Giō cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the capital; the flight of the Heike and the battle of Ichi-no-tani; and the aftermath of the war. Each event features a series of one to three plays preceded by essays
The Log Cabin Emperor: Marginality and the Legend of Oguri Hangan
Cet article est consacré au « sermon récité » (jp. sekkyō-bushi) Oguri hangan. II commence par un bref examen des différentes versions du texte existant aujourd'hui : les quinze rouleaux illustrés en possession de la maison impériale dont l'origine vient sans doute de l'atelier d'Iwasa Matabei Katsumochi, les textes destinés à la psalmodie et à la récitation avec leurs marqueurs (jp. shōhon), en passant par les différentes versions récitées, aujo…
Reflections of Terute: Searching for a hidden shaman-entertainer
(2001). Reflections of Terute: Searching for a hidden shaman‐entertainer. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 113-134
Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku
Noh drama has long fascinated Westerners by its poetic excellence and its dramatic power. To the student of medieval Japanese culture, however, noh writings, especially dramaturgical treatises, are also of immense value as monuments of culture. To uncover the larger patterns of cultural discourse in these theoretical works, Arthur Thornhill presents the first major study in English of the dramaturgical treatises of Komparu Zenchiku (1405-1468?), …
Theater as Music: "The Bunraku Play "Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: An Exemplary Tale of Womanly Virtue
Hokusai: One Hundred Poets
The Tale of the Soga Brothers
Lord Tamekane's Notes on Poetry. Tamekanekyo Wakasho
J APANESE poetry in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries was dominated by a bitter dispute between two lines of Fujiwara Teika's )i; SS descendants, the Nijo a and the Kyogoku YW/Reizei 7 branches of the family. To complicate matters further, the dispute was as much political as poetic for each of the two lines had its imperial backers, who were themselves locked in a struggle for the throne. However nebulous the political differenc…
The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan
Japan before Perry: A Short History
By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative survey, Conrad Totman examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in detail the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs, weaving interpretations of the major themes in Japan's cul…
Okagami, The Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times
The Aesthetics of Transformation: Zeami's Dramatic Theories
Studies in Kabuki: Its Acting, Music, and Historical Context
The Legend of Semimaru: Blind Musician of Japan
Images of Exile and Pilgrimage. Zeami's Kintosho
The Legend of Semimaru: Blind Musician of Japan
The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan
Kintosho. Zeami's Song of Exile
Kintosho. Zeami's Song of Exile
The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan
The Legend of Semimaru: Blind Musician of Japan
Images of Exile and Pilgrimage. Zeami's Kintosho
The Legend of Semimaru: Blind Musician of Japan
Studies in Kabuki: Its Acting, Music, and Historical Context
Japan before Perry: A Short History
By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative survey, Conrad Totman examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in detail the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs, weaving interpretations of the major themes in Japan's cul…
Okagami, The Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times
The Aesthetics of Transformation: Zeami's Dramatic Theories
The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan
Lord Tamekane's Notes on Poetry. Tamekanekyo Wakasho
J APANESE poetry in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries was dominated by a bitter dispute between two lines of Fujiwara Teika's )i; SS descendants, the Nijo a and the Kyogoku YW/Reizei 7 branches of the family. To complicate matters further, the dispute was as much political as poetic for each of the two lines had its imperial backers, who were themselves locked in a struggle for the throne. However nebulous the political differenc…
The Tale of the Soga Brothers
Hokusai: One Hundred Poets
Theater as Music: "The Bunraku Play "Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: An Exemplary Tale of Womanly Virtue
Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku
Noh drama has long fascinated Westerners by its poetic excellence and its dramatic power. To the student of medieval Japanese culture, however, noh writings, especially dramaturgical treatises, are also of immense value as monuments of culture. To uncover the larger patterns of cultural discourse in these theoretical works, Arthur Thornhill presents the first major study in English of the dramaturgical treatises of Komparu Zenchiku (1405-1468?), …
Reflections of Terute: Searching for a hidden shaman-entertainer
(2001). Reflections of Terute: Searching for a hidden shaman‐entertainer. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 113-134
The Log Cabin Emperor: Marginality and the Legend of Oguri Hangan
Cet article est consacré au « sermon récité » (jp. sekkyō-bushi) Oguri hangan. II commence par un bref examen des différentes versions du texte existant aujourd'hui : les quinze rouleaux illustrés en possession de la maison impériale dont l'origine vient sans doute de l'atelier d'Iwasa Matabei Katsumochi, les textes destinés à la psalmodie et à la récitation avec leurs marqueurs (jp. shōhon), en passant par les différentes versions récitées, aujo…
Holy Horrors: The Sermon-Ballads of Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of No Plays of the Genpei War
This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. Essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the Giō cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the capital; the flight of the Heike and the battle of Ichi-no-tani; and the aftermath of the war. Each event features a series of one to three plays preceded by essays
Art (16 works) · History (13 works) · History (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Literature (6 works) · Art history (4 works) · Legend (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works)