Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater
From the Japanese Noh Theater

Chifumi Shimazaki (Edited and translated by)

9780939657605

Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2010

240 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg

The great advantage of Shimazaki's translations is that an English reader now has the wherewithal to begin to decode these beautiful works... a labor of love and scholarship.

Translations of six shura (battle)-Noh that have for the main character the ghost of a warrior whose story is told in the Tale of Heike. Each Noh has a detailed introduction and footnotes.