Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- 38 Introduction to early modern Japanese literature
- 39 Publishing and the book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 40 A forest of books: seventeenth-century Kamigata commercial prose
- 41 The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
- 42 Ihara Saikaku and Ejima Kiseki: the literature of urban townspeople
- 43 Representing theater: text and performance in kabuki and bunraku
- 44 Puppet theater: from early jōruri to the golden age
- 45 From the beginnings of kabuki to the playwrights Nanboku and Mokuami
- 46 Early to mid-Edo kanshi
- 47 Kanshibun in the late Edo period
- 48 Waka practice and poetics in the Edo period
- 49 Literary thought in Confucian ancient learning and Kokugaku
- 50 Bunjin (literati) and early yomihon: Nankaku, Nankai, Buson, Gennai, Teishō, Ayatari, and Akinari
- 51 Satiric poetry: Kyōshi, Kyōka, and Senryū
- 52 Picture books: from akahon to kibyōshi and gōkan
- 53 The birth of kokkeibon (comic novellas)
- 54 Ninjōbon and romances for women
- 55 Development of the late yomihon: Santō Kyōden and Kyokutei Bakin
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
44 - Puppet theater: from early jōruri to the golden age
from Part IV - The Edo period (1600–1867)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2016
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- 38 Introduction to early modern Japanese literature
- 39 Publishing and the book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 40 A forest of books: seventeenth-century Kamigata commercial prose
- 41 The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
- 42 Ihara Saikaku and Ejima Kiseki: the literature of urban townspeople
- 43 Representing theater: text and performance in kabuki and bunraku
- 44 Puppet theater: from early jōruri to the golden age
- 45 From the beginnings of kabuki to the playwrights Nanboku and Mokuami
- 46 Early to mid-Edo kanshi
- 47 Kanshibun in the late Edo period
- 48 Waka practice and poetics in the Edo period
- 49 Literary thought in Confucian ancient learning and Kokugaku
- 50 Bunjin (literati) and early yomihon: Nankaku, Nankai, Buson, Gennai, Teishō, Ayatari, and Akinari
- 51 Satiric poetry: Kyōshi, Kyōka, and Senryū
- 52 Picture books: from akahon to kibyōshi and gōkan
- 53 The birth of kokkeibon (comic novellas)
- 54 Ninjōbon and romances for women
- 55 Development of the late yomihon: Santō Kyōden and Kyokutei Bakin
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
Summary
Joruri refers to the vocal art of dramatic narration. Since the Tokugawa period, joruri works have been grouped into ko-joruri and toryu-joruri, which begins in 1685 with Shusse Kagekiyo by the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Chikamatsu Monzaemon composed over one hundred plays for the puppet theater stage over four decades. Chikamatsu's exposure to kabuki dramaturgy profoundly affected his approach to playwriting and later greatly influenced his joruri composition. All of Chikamatsu's most celebrated joruri were composed after his return from the kabuki theater. Modern Japanese anthologies of his plays devote their annotation efforts exclusively to his late-period plays. The golden age of joruri, spanning the years from 1715 until 1751, opened with the first performance of Kokusenya kassen, which enjoyed an unprecedented seventeen-month run at the Takemoto theater. Finally, joruri evolved into a theatrical form that produced cultural artifacts that were immersed in and shared characteristics with the literary and visual cultures of Tokugawa Japan.
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- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature , pp. 437 - 446Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015