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Certain noble plays of Japan

Title
Certain noble plays of Japan: from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, chosen and finished by Ezra Pound, with an introduction by William Butler Yeats.
Author
Fenollosa, Ernest, 1853-1908
Publication
Churchtown, Dundrum, The Cuala Press, 1916.

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Additional Authors
  • Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
  • Zeami, 1363-1443.
  • Ujinobu.
  • Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
  • Motokiyo, Séami, 1363-1444.
  • Ujinobu, Zenchiku, 1414-1499?
Description
2 p. l., xviii, [3], 48, [3] p.; 21.5 cm.
Subject
  • Japanese drama > Translations into English
  • English drama > Translations from Japanese
  • Nō
  • Japanese literature > Drama
Note
  • Title vignette.
  • Colophon: Here ends 'Certain noble plays of Japan:' from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, chosen and finished by Ezra Pound. Printed and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the county of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on the twentieth day of July, in the year of the Sinn Fein rising, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
  • Four plays of the "Noh" (spectacles performed at the court of the Shogun); the first three appeared, respectively, in "Poetry," "The Quarterly review," and "The Drama." cf. Introd. and "Notes."
  • "Three hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed. This copy is no. 173."
Contents
Nishikigi, a play in two acts by Motokiyo.--Hagoromo, a play in one act.--Kumasaka, a play in two acts by Ujinobu, adopted son of Motokijo.--Kagekiyo, a play in one act, by Motokiyo.
Call Number
*KP (Cuala) (Fenollosa, E. F. Certain noble plays of Japan)
LCCN
19019159
OCLC
2278521
Author
Fenollosa, Ernest, 1853-1908, tr.
Title
Certain noble plays of Japan: from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, chosen and finished by Ezra Pound, with an introduction by William Butler Yeats.
Imprint
Churchtown, Dundrum, The Cuala Press, 1916.
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Added Author
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Zeami, 1363-1443.
Ujinobu.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Motokiyo, Séami, 1363-1444.
Ujinobu, Zenchiku, 1414-1499?
Research Call Number
*KP (Cuala) (Fenollosa, E. F. Certain noble plays of Japan)
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