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HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS JonWoronoff,SeriesEditor 1. ScienceFictionLiterature,byBrianStableford,2004 2. HorrorLiterature,byJohnClute,2005 3. AmericanRadioSoapOperas,byJimCox,2005 4. JapaneseTraditionalTheatre,bySamuelL.Leiter,2006 5. FantasyLiterature,byBrianStableford,2005 6. AustralianandNewZealandCinema,byAlbertMoranandErrol Vieth,2006 7. African-AmericanTelevision,byKathleenFearn-Banks,2006 8. LesbianLiterature,byMeredithMiller,2006 PAGEi .................15687$ $$FM 12-20-0511:05:22 PS PAGEii .................15687$ $$FM 12-20-0511:05:22 PS Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre Samuel L. Leiter Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 4 The Scarecrow Press, Inc. • • Lanham, Maryland Toronto Oxford 2006 PAGEiii .................15687$ $$FM 12-20-0511:05:23 PS SCARECROWPRESS,INC. PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica byScarecrowPress,Inc. Awhollyownedsubsidiaryof TheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.scarecrowpress.com POBox317 Oxford OX29RU,UK Copyright(cid:2)2006bySamuelL.Leiter Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyany means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Leiter,SamuelL. HistoricaldictionaryofJapanesetraditionaltheatre/SamuelL.Leiter. p. cm.—(Historicaldictionariesofliteratureandthearts;no.4) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN0-8108-5527-5(hardcover:alk.paper) 1.Theater—Japan—History—Dictionaries. I.Title. II.Series. PN2921.L45 2006 792(cid:2).0952(cid:2)03—dc22 2005019419 (cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:4) Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsof AmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences—Permanenceof PaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48–1992. ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica. PAGEiv .................15687$ $$FM 12-20-0511:05:24 PS To my granddaughters, again, Briar Autumn Falvo and Paisley Skye Falvo PAGEv .................15687$ $$FM 12-20-0511:05:24 PS PAGEvi .................15687$ $$FM 12-20-0511:05:24 PS Contents Editor’sForewordJonWoronoff ix Acknowledgments xi Reader’sNote xiii Chronology xv Introduction 1 THEDICTIONARY 29 AppendixA:PlayTitleTranslations 449 AppendixB:SimplifiedTableofJapaneseHistoricalPeriods 475 Glossary 477 Bibliography 503 AbouttheAuthor 557 vii PAGEvii .................15687$ CNTS 12-20-0511:05:26 PS PAGEviii .................15687$ CNTS 12-20-0511:05:26 PS

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