An edition of Kissing the mask
(2010)
Kissing the mask
beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines
1st ed.
by William T. Vollmann
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Explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries and extracts the secrets of staged femininity and the mystery of perceived and expressed beauty.
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Kissing the mask: beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines
2010, Ecco
in English
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0061228486 9780061228483
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Table of 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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]-500).
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