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Varley, H. Paul. The Ōnin War: History of Its Origins and Background with a Selective Translation of the Chronicle of Ōnin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
Yonekura, Isamu. “The Revenge of the Soga Brothers.” East 8, no. 5 (1972): 25–33.
Ballad Drama
Araki, James. The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964; Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1978.
Nō Drama
Bainbridge, Erika Ohara. “The Madness of Mothers in Japanese Noh Drama.” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal: A Journal for the International Exchange of Gender Studies 3 (1992): 84–110.
Bender, Ross. “Metamorphosis of a Deity: The Image of Hachiman in Yumi yawata.” Monumenta Nipponica 33, no. 2 (1978): 165–178.
Bethe, Monica, and Karen W. Brazell. Dance in the Nō Theater. 3 vols. Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 29. Ithaca, N.Y.: China-Japan Program, Cornell University, 1982.
Bethe, Monica, and Karen W. Brazell. Nō as Performance: An Analysis of the Kuse Scene of Yamamba. Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 16. Ithaca, N.Y.: China-Japan Program, Cornell University, 1978.
Brandon, James R., Frank Hoff, and William Packard. “Japanese Noh.” In Traditional Asian Plays, edited by James R. Brandon, 173–177. New York: Hill & Wang, 1972.
Brazell, Karen W. “Atsumori: The Ghost of a Warrior on Stage.” Par Rapport: A Journal of the Humanities 5–6 (1982–1983): 13–23.
Brazell, Karen W. “Citations on the Noh Stage.” Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 17 (1995): 91–110.
Brazell, Karen W. “In Search of Yamamba: A Critique of the Nō Play.” In Studies in Japanese Culture, edited by Saburo Ota and Rikutaro Fukuda, 1:495–498. Tokyo: Japan P.E.N. Club, 1973.
Brazell, Karen W. “Zeami and Women in Love.” Literature East and West 18, no. 1 (1974): 8–18.
Brazell, Karen W., ed. Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Brazell, Karen W., ed. Twelve Plays of the Nō and Kyōgen Theaters. Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 50. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1990.
Bresler, Laurence, trans. “Chōbuku soga: A Noh Play.” Monumenta Nipponica 29, no. 1 (1974): 69–81.
Brock, Sam Houston, trans. “Sotoba komachi.” In Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, edited by Donald Keene, 264–270. New York: Grove Press, 1955.
Foard, James H. “Seiganji: The Buddhist Orientation of a Noh Play.” Monumenta Nipponica 35 (1980): 437–456.
Goff, Janet. “Noh and Its Antecedents: ‘Journey to the Western Provinces.’” In The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations in Honor of Robert H. Brower, edited by Thomas B. Hare, Robert Borgen, and Sharalyn Orbaugh, 165–181. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996.
Goff, Janet. Noh Drama and the Tale of Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Hare, Thomas B. “A Separate Piece: Proprietary Claims and Intertextuality in the Rokujō Plays.” In The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations in Honor of Robert H. Brower, edited by Thomas B. Hare, Robert Borgen, and Sharalyn Orbaugh, 183–204. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996.
Hare, Thomas B. Zeami’s Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Hayashi, Tetsumaro. “Zeami’s Dramatic Time-Structure in Komachi at Sekidera.” Literature East and West 21 (1977): 163–169.
Hoff, Frank. Song, Dance, Storytelling: Aspects of the Performing Arts in Japan. Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 15. Ithaca, N.Y.: China-Japan Program, Cornell University, 1978.
Hoff, Frank, and Willi Flint. “The Life Structure of Noh: An English Version of Yokomichi Mario’s Analyses of the Structure of Noh.” Concerned Theater Japan 2, nos. 3–4 (1973): 210–256.
Horiguchi, Yasuo. “Literature and Performing Arts in the Medieval Age—Kan’ami’s Dramaturgy.” Acta Asiatica 33 (1977): 15–31.
Huey, Robert N. “Sakuragawa: Cherry River.” Monumenta Nipponica 38, no. 3 (1983): 295–312.
Inoura, Yoshinobu. A History of Japanese Theatre I: Noh and Kyōgen. Tokyo: Kokusai bunka shinkōkai, 1971.
Jones, Stanleigh H., Jr., trans. “The Nō Plays Obasute and Kanehira.” Monumenta Nipponica 18 (1963): 261–285.
Katō, Eileen, trans. “Kinuta.” Monumenta Nipponica 32, no. 3 (1977): 332–346.
Keene, Donald. Nō: The Classical Theatre of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1966.
Keene, Donald, ed. Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Keith, Nobuko T. “Ezra Pound and Japanese Noh Plays: An Examination of Sotoba Komachi and Nishikigi.” Literature East and West 15–16 (1971–1972): 662–679.
Klein, Susan Blakeley. “When the Moon Strikes the Bell: Desire and Enlightenment in the Noh Play Dōjōji.” Journal of Japanese Studies 17, no. 2 (1991): 291–322.
Kominz, Laurence. “The Noh as Popular Theater: Miyamasu’s Youchi soga.” Monumenta Nipponica 33 (1978): 441–459.
Komparu, Kunio. The Noh Theater: Principles and Perspectives. Tokyo; Weatherhill, 1983.
Komparu, Zempo Motoyasu. “Ikkaku Sennin.” Adapted by William Packard from a translation by Frank Hoff. In Four Classical Asian Plays in Modern Translation, edited by Vera R. Irwin, 241–269. Baltimore: Penguin, 1972.
Malm, William P. “The Musical Characteristics and Practice of the Japanese Noh Drama in an East Asian Context.” In Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas, edited by J. I. Crump and William P. Malm, 99–142. Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies, no. 19. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1975.
Matisoff, Susan. “Images of Exile and Pilgrimage: Zeami’s Kintōsho.” Monumenta Nipponica 34 (1979): 449–465.
Matisoff, Susan. “Kintōsho: Zeami’s Song of Exile.” Monumenta Nipponica 32 (1977): 441–458.
Minagawa, Tatsuo. “Japanese Noh Music.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 10, no. 3 (1957): 183–185.
Morrell, Robert E., trans. “Passage to India Denied: Zeami’s Kasuga ryujin.” Monumenta Nipponica 37, no. 2 (1982): 179–200.
Mueller, Jacqueline. “The Two Shizukas: Zeami’s Futari shizuka.” Monumenta Nipponica 36, no. 3 (1981): 285–298.
Nakamura, Yasuo. Noh: The Classical Theater. Translated by Don Kenny, with an introduction by Earle Ernst. Performing Arts of Japan, no. 4. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
Nearman, Mark J. “Kyakuraika: Zeami’s Final Legacy for the Master Actor.” Monumenta Nipponica 35 (1980): 153–197.
Nearman, Mark J. “The Visions of a Creative Artist: Zenchiku’s Rokurin ichiro Treatises.” Monumenta Nipponica 50, nos. 2–4 (1995): 235–261, 281–303, 485–522; 51, no. 1 (1996): 17–52.
Nearman, Mark J. “Zeami’s Kyūi: A Pedagogical Guide for Teachers of Acting.” Monumenta Nipponica 33 (1978): 299–332.
Nearman, Mark J., trans. “Kakyō: Zeami’s Fundamental Principles of Acting.” Monumenta Nipponica 37, nos. 3–4 (1982): 333–374, 459–496.
Nippon gakujutsu shinkōkai. Japanese Noh Drama. 3 vols. Tokyo: Nippon gakujutsu shinkōkai, 1955, 1959, 1960.
Nogami, Toyoichirō. Japanese Noh Plays: How to See Them. Tokyo: Nogaku shorin, 1954.
Nogami, Toyoichirō. Zeami and His Theories on Noh. Translated by Ryōzō Matsumoto. Tokyo: Hinoki shoten, 1973.
O’Neill, P. G. Early Nō Drama: Its Background, Character and Development, 1300–1450. London: Humphries, 1958.
O’Neill, P. G. A Guide to Nō. Tokyo: Hinoki shoten, 1954.
Pinnington, Noel. “Crossed Paths: Zeami’s Transmission to Zenchiku.” Monumenta Nipponica 52 (1997): 201–234.
Pound, Ezra, and Ernest Fenollosa, trans. The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan. Ne
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Quinn, Shelley Fenno. “How to Write a Nō Play: Zeami’s Sandō.” Monumenta Nipponica 48, no. 1 (1993): 53–88.
Raz, Jacob. “The Actor and His Audience: Zeami’s Views on the Audience of the Noh.” Monumenta Nipponica 31, no. 3 (1976): 251–274.
Rimer, J. Thomas, and Yamazaki Masakazu, trans. On the Art of Nō Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Rubin, Jay. “The Art of the Flower of Mumbo Jumbo.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 53, no. 2 (1993): 513–541.
Sata, Megumi. “Aristotle’s Poetics and Zeami’s Teachings on Style and the Flower.” Asian Theatre Journal 6, no. 1 (1989): 47–56.
Shidehara, Michitarō, and Wilfrid Whitehouse, trans. “Seami jūroku bushū: Seami’s Sixteen Treatises.” Monumenta Nipponica 4, no. 2 (1941): 204–239.
Shimazaki, Chifumi. Battle Noh: In Parallel Translations with an Introduction and Running Commentaries. Vol. 2 of The Noh. Tokyo: Hinoki shoten, 1987.
Shimazaki, Chifumi. God Noh. Vol. 1 of The Noh. Tokyo: Hinoki shoten, 1972.
Shimazaki, Chifumi. Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary. Cornell University East Asia Series, no. 76. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1995.
Shimazaki, Chifumi. Troubled Souls from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group. Cornell University East Asia Series, no. 95. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1998.
Shimazaki, Chifumi. Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary. Cornell University East Asia Series, no. 60. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1993.
Shimazaki, Chifumi. Women Noh: In Parallel Translations with an Introduction and Running Commentaries. Vol. 3 of The Noh. Tokyo: Hinoki shoten, 1987.
Shively, Donald H. “Buddhahood for the Nonsentient: A Theme in Nō Plays.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 20, no. 1 (1957): 135–161.
Terasaki, Etsuko. “Images and Symbols in Sotoba Komachi: A Critical Analysis of a Nō Play.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 44, no. 1 (1984): 155–184:
Terasaki, Etsuko. “Is the Courtesan of Eguchi a Buddhist Metaphorical Woman? A Feminist Reading of a Nō Play in the Japanese Medieval Theater.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 21, no. 4 (1992): 431–456.
Thornhill, Arthur H., III. “The Goddess Emerges: Shinto Paradigms in the Aesthetics of Zeami and Zenchiku.” Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 24, no. 1 (1990): 49–59.
Thornhill, Arthur H., III. Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Tyler, Royall. “Buddhism in Noh.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 14 (1987): 19–52.
Tyler, Royall. “The Nō Play Matsukaze as a Transformation of Genji monogatari.” Journal of Japanese Studies 20, no. 2 (1994): 377–422.
Tyler, Royall, trans. Granny Mountains: A Second Cycle of Nō Plays. Cornell University East Asia Series, no. 18. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1978.
Tyler, Royall, trans, and ed. Japanese Nō Dramas. London: Penguin, 1992.
Tyler, Royall, trans. Pining Wind: A Cycle of Nō Plays. Cornell University East Asia Series, nos. 17–18. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1978.
Waley, Arthur. The Nō Plays of Japan. 1921. Reprint, New York: Grove Press, 1957.
Weatherby, Meredith, and Bruce Rogers, trans. “Birds of Sorrow.” In Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, edited by Donald Keene, 271–285. New York: Grove Press, 1955.
Yamazaki, Masakazu. “The Aesthetics of Transformation: Zeami’s Dramatic Theories.” Translated by Susan Matisoff. Journal of Japanese Studies 7, no. 2 (1981): 215–257.
Yasuda, Kenneth K. “The Dramatic Structure of Ataka, a Noh Play.” Monumenta Nipponica 27 (1972): 359–398.
Yasuda, Kenneth K. Masterworks of the Nō Theater. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Yasuda, Kenneth K. “The Prototypical Nō Wig Play: Izutsu.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 40, no. 2 (1980): 399–464.
Yasuda, Kenneth K. “The Structure of Hagoromo, a Nō Play.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 33 (1973): 5–89.
Comic Theater
Akira Shigeyama International Projects, executive producer, Akira Shigeyama. Busu (video recording). New York: Insight Media, 1996.
Brazell, Karen W., ed. Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Brazell, Karen W., ed. Twelve Plays of the Nō and Kyōgen Theaters. Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 50. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1990.
Golay, Jacqueline. “Pathos and Farce: Zatō Plays of the kyōgen Repertoire.” Monumenta Nipponica 28, no. 2 (1973): 139–149.
Haynes, Carolyn. “Comic Inversion in Kyōgen: Ghosts and the Nether World.” Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 22, no. 1 (1988): 29–40.
Haynes, Carolyn. “Parody in Kyōgen: Makura Monogurui and Tako.” Monumenta Nipponica 39, no. 3 (1984): 261–279.
Kenny, Don. A Guide to Kyōgen. Tokyo: Hinoki shoten, 1968.
Kenny, Don. The Kyogen Book: An Anthology of Japanese Classical Comedies. Tokyo: Japan Times, 1989.
McKinnon, Richard N., trans. Selected Plays of Kyōgen. Tokyo: Uniprint, 1968.
McKinnon, Richard N., trans, and intro. “Thunder: A Kyōgen Play.” Literature East and West 11 (1967): 361–372.
Morley, Carolyn A. “The Tender-Hearted Shrews: The Woman Character in Kyōgen.” Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 22, no. 1 (1988): 41–52.
Morley, Carolyn A. Transformation, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyōgen. Cornell University East Asia Series, no. 62. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1993.
Sakanishi, Shio, trans. Japanese Folk-Plays: The Ink-Smeared Lady and Other Kyōgen. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1960.
Ikkyū and Gozan Literature
Arntzen, Sonja. Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1986.
Parker, Joseph D. “Attaining Landscapes in the Mind: Nature Poetry and Painting in Gozan Zen.” Monumenta Nipponica 52 (1997): 235–258.
Pollack, David. Zen Poems of the Five Mountains. New York: Crossroad, 1985.
Ury, Marian. Poems of the Five Mountains: An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries. Tokyo: Mushinsha, 1977.
Watson, Burton, trans. “Poems in Chinese by Buddhist Monks.” In Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, edited by Donald Keene, 312–313. New York: Grove Press, 1955.
Late Medieval Poetry and Scholarship
Brower, Robert H., and Steven D. Carter, trans. Conversations with Shōtetsu. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992.
Carter, Steven D. Regent Redux: A Life of the Statesman-Scholar Ichijō Kaneyoshi. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996.
Carter, Steven D. “‘Seeking What the Masters Sought’: Masters, Disciples, and Poetic Enlightenment in Medieval Japan.” In The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations in Honor of Robert H. Brower, edited by Thomas B. Hare, Robert Borgen, and Sharalyn Orbaugh, 35–58. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996.
Carter, Steven D. “Waka in the Age of renga.” Monumenta Nipponica 36, no. 4 (1981): 425–444.
Carter, Steven D., ed. Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993.
Carter, Steven D., trans. Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shōtetsu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Carter, Steven D., trans. Waiting for the Wind: Thirty-six Poets of Japan’s Late Medieval Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Isao, Kumakura, and Steven D.
Carter, trans. “Sanjonishi Sanetaka, Takeno Joo, and an Early Form of Iemoto Seido.” In Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan, edited by Steven D. Carter, 95–103. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993.
Karaki, Junzo. “Perspectives on the Self: Suki, Susabi, and Sabi in Medieval Japanese Literature.” Chanoyu Quarterly 35 (1983): 30–51.
Karaki, Junzo. “Wafting Petals and Windblown Leaves: Impermanence in the Aesthetics of Shinkei, Sōgi, and Bashō.” Chanoyu Quarterly 37 (1984): 7–27.
Linked Verse
Carter, Steven D. “A Lesson in Failure: Linked-Verse Contests in Medieval Japan.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 104, no. 4 (1984): 727–737.
Carter, Steven D. “Mixing Memories: Linked Verse and the Fragmentation of the Court Heritage.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 48, no. 1 (1988): 5–45.
Carter, Steven D. The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga hyakuin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Carter, Steven D. “Rules, Rules, and More Rules: Shōhaku’s renga Rulebook of 1501.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 43, no. 2 (1983): 581–642.
Carter, Steven D. “Sōgi in the East Country, Shirakawa kiko.” Monumenta Nipponica 42, no. 2 (1987): 167–209.
Carter, Steven D. Three Poets at Yuyama. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1983.
Carter, Steven D. “Three Poets at Yuyama: Sōgi and Yuyama sangin hyakuin, 1491.” Monumenta Nipponica 33, nos. 2–3 (1978): 119–149, 241–283.
Cranston, Edwin A. “Shinkei’s 1467 Dokugin hyakuin.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 54, no. 2 (1994): 461–507.
Ebersole, Gary L. “The Buddhist Ritual Use of Linked Poetry in Medieval Japan.” Eastern Buddhist 16, no. 2 (1983): 50–71.
Hare, Thomas B. “Linked Verse at Imashinmei Shrine, Anegakōji imashinmei hyakuin 1447.” Monumenta Nipponica 34, no. 2 (1979): 169–208.
Hirota, Dennis. “In Practice of the Way: Sasamegoto, an Instruction Book in Linked Verse.” Chanoyu Quarterly 19 (1977): 23–46.
Horton, H. Mack. “Renga Unbound: Performative Aspects of Japanese Linked Verse.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 53, no. 2 (1993): 443–512.
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