Visioning Eternity
Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater

Thomas D. Looser (Author)

9781933947082

Hardback, published 31 March 2010

336 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.907 kg

In one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to a deepening crisis in 1840s by sponsoring a huge, "once-in-a-generation" noh performance—the largest performance ever held. This is the first Western language book on Edo period noh and its use by the shogun, an essential addition to the scholarship in Japanese theater and the cultural history of early modern Japan.