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'noh'; Or Accomplishment, a Study of the Classical Stage of Japan. by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound
'noh' Or Accomplishment a Study of the Classical Stage of Japan by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound Author:Ernest Francisco Fenollosa General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Subjects: N? Drama / General Drama / Asian Literary Criticism / Asian / General Performing Arts / Theater / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SUMA GENJI Characters Shite, an old wood-cutter, who is an apparition of the hero, Genji, as a sort of place-spirit, the spirit of the seashore at Suma. Waki, Fujiwara, a priest with a hobby for folk-lore, who is visiting sacred places. Second Shite, or the Shite in his second manner or apparition, Genji's spirit appearing in a sort of glory of waves and moonlight. Waki (announcing himself) I, Fujiwara no Okinori, Am come over the sea from Hiuga ; I am a priest from the shinto temple at Miya- zaki, And, as I lived far afield, I could not see the temple of the great god at Ise ; And now I am a-mind to go thither, And am come to Suma, the sea-board. Here Genji lived, and here I shall see the young cherry, The tree that is so set in the tales Shite And I am a wood-cutter of Suma. I fish in the twilight; By day I pack wood and make salt. Here is the mount of Suma. There is the tree, the young cherry.1 And you may be quite right about Genji's having lived here. That blossom will flare in a moment.2 Waki I must find out what that old man knows. (To Shite.) Sir, you seem very poor, and yet you neglect your road ; you stop on your way home, just to look at a flower. Is that the tree of the stories ? Shite I dare say I'm poor enough ; but you 1 It must be remembered that the properties and scene are not representational but symbolic, the hero-actor simply says in effect, " Pretend that that is the tree and that the mounta...« less