Selected Resources on Noh at UH Manoa

Want to prep yourself for the Noh performance at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Orvis Auditorium this Saturday, February 7 at 7:30pm? Librarian Tokiko Bazzell with the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Asia Collection Department gathered these Noh resources that are available through the University of Hawai‘i library system.

Selected Resources on Noh

as collected by 

Tokiko Bazzell
Asia Collection Department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Guides/Introductions

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=853568

Author: O'Neill, P. G. (Patrick Geoffrey), 1924-

Title: A guide to Nō

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3331344

Author: Maruoka, Daiji, 1913-

Title: Noh

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=614038

Title: Essays on Noh and Kyogen and two new translations / James R. Brandon ... [and others].

Variant Title: Noh & kyōgen (including “Noh masks”)

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1925796

Title: Nōh and Kyōgen : an interpretive guide

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1598086

Author: Keene, Donald.

Title: Nō ; and, Bunraku : two forms of Japanese theatre

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=129693

Author: Keene, Donald.

Title: Nō; the classical theatre of Japan

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1366277

 Author: Konparu, Kunio, 1926-

 Title: The noh theater : principles and perspectives

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2349960

Author: Rath, Eric C., 1967-

Title: The ethos of Noh : actors and their art

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1433742

Author: Shimazaki, Chifumi, 1910-

Title: The Noh (include general information about Noh)

Noh Masks

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3198470

Author: Udaka, Michishige.

Title: The secrets of noh masks

Zeami

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2466275

Author: Quinn, Shelley Fenno.

Title: Developing Zeami : the Noh actor's attunement in practice

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2248674

Author: Terasaki, Etsuko.

Title: Figures of desire : wordplay, spirit possession, fantasy, madness, and mourning in Japanese noh plays

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=992869

Author: Elzey, John M.

Title: Structure and imagery in the Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1263355

Author: Zeami, 1363-1443.

Title: On the art of the nō drama : the major treatises of Zeami ; translated by J. Thomas Rimer, Yamazaki Masakazu

Kiyotsune

·       https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=437173

Author: Yamamoto, Jirō, 1910-

Title: Nō jōruri kabuki / Yamamoto Jirō, Tokue Gensei hen.

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1423663

Author: Reiter, Seymour.

Title: World theater; the structure and meaning of drama (inside Zeami's Kiyotsun is described)

·      https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=8212
Sound Recording (Phonodisc) @ Sinclair Wong A/V
Title: Kiyotsune / ji Kondō Kennosuke, Tosaka Takeo [sound recording]

·      Web site on Kiyotsune play with bilingual story plot

http://www.the-noh.com/en/plays/data/program_020.html

·      “A Study of Life and Death in Noh Play Kiyotsune” (research paper on Kiyotsune)
http://atlantic.gssc.nihon-u.ac.jp/~ISHCC/bulletin/05/5017.pdf