Commentaries

Commentaries on noh plays aimed at providing definitions of the vocabulary and annotations of the literary and religious references in plays. What started first as marginalia—notes on meanings of words and phrases alongside the lines in chant books—later developed into the first official commentary collection, Utai no shō (Commentary on Chant Books), completed at the end of the 16^th century. The authors of the commentaries were erudite scholars and took painstaking efforts to clarify obscurities in play texts.

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  Title:

  Commentary on Chant Books, Morikiyo manuscript, movable type

  Title (jp):

  Kokatsuji-ban Utai no shō Morikiyobon  古活字版『謡抄』守清本

  Description:

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  Collection name:

  Hosei University Kōzan Collection

  Volume:

  10

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