LEADER 04192nam 2200649 450 001 9910798150903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54052-3 024 7 $a10.7312/shim17226 035 $a(CKB)3710000000628198 035 $a(EBL)4514167 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001646435 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16417293 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646435 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12893778 035 $a(PQKB)11079674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4612436 035 $a(DE-B1597)458502 035 $a(OCoLC)946713317 035 $a(OCoLC)949324750 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231540520 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4514167 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4612436 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11271564 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL917614 035 $a(OCoLC)945078715 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4514167 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11221649 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000628198 100 $a20150820h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEdo kabuki in transition $efrom the worlds of the samurai to the vengeful female ghost /$fSatoko Shimazaki 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (389 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-17226-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The birth of Edo kabuki -- Presenting the past: Edo kabuki and the creation of community -- The beginning of the end of Edo kabuki: Yotsuya Kaidan in 1825 -- Overturning the world: the treasury of loyal retainers and Yotsuya Kaidan -- Shades of jealousy: the body of the female ghost -- The end of the world: figures of the ubume and the breakdown of theater tradition -- The modern rebirth of kabuki -- Another history: Yotsuya Kaidan on stage and page. 330 $aSatoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding of early modern kabuki as a subversive entertainment and a threat to shogunal authority, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history in the inhabitants of Edo (present-day Tokyo) by invoking "worlds," or sekai, derived from earlier military tales, and overlaying them onto the present. She then analyzes the profound changes that took place in Edo kabuki toward the end of the early modern period, which witnessed the rise of a new type of character: the vengeful female ghost.Shimazaki's bold reinterpretation of the history of kabuki centers on the popular ghost play Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (The Eastern Seaboard Highway Ghost Stories at Yotsuya, 1825) by Tsuruya Nanboku IV. Drawing not only on kabuki scripts but also on a wide range of other sources, from theatrical ephemera and popular fiction to medical and religious texts, she sheds light on the development of the ubiquitous trope of the vengeful female ghost and its illumination of new themes at a time when the samurai world was losing its relevance. She explores in detail the process by which nineteenth-century playwrights began dismantling the Edo tradition of "presenting the past" by abandoning their long-standing reliance on the sekai. She then reveals how, in the 1920s, a new generation of kabuki playwrights, critics, and scholars reinvented the form again, "textualizing" kabuki so that it could be pressed into service as a guarantor of national identity. 606 $aKabuki$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aJapanese drama$yEdo period, 1600-1868$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aKabuki$xHistory 615 0$aJapanese drama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a792.0952 700 $aShimazaki$b Satoko$01487550 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798150903321 996 $aEdo kabuki in transition$93707470 997 $aUNINA