Japanese Noh Drama: Ten Plays Selected and Translated from the Japanese

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
The nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, Tokyo.

BINDING

Brown cloth boards, possibly raw silk, with gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Good, boards just have a little wear at edges. Printed pages and illustrations are clear and little marked. Fold out frontispiece has a crease along very edge. 

DUST JACKET
Worn and faded, with some tearing along top edge and spine. Spine discoloured.

EDITION
1955.

DESCRIPTION
Illustrated throughout with many small drawings depicting the correct positions of actors figures within the text. Ten black and white plates of traditional style paintings proceed each chapter. Frontispiece drawing and a further fold out page shows a traditional stage. Map of Japan at end of volume. Attractive Japanese paper endpapers. 192 pp. Approx. 19 x 26cm.

SYNOPSIS
A charmingly illustrated collection of Noh drama in English translation, with a general introduction and historical notes.