Historical Materials
While chant books, treatises, and tsuke are for those performing noh, materials outside of practical purpose are also significant to the history of noh as a whole. This category includes materials that are of use to, or written by, the people engaged with noh—such as programs, diaries, biographies of performers, and blueprints of the noh stage. There are also documents unique to noh as an official ceremonial performing art with a rigid hierarchy; for example, letters of pledges were sent from disciples to their masters on the occasion of transmitting special knowledge. Also, each noh troupe had to submit official documents called kakiage that recorded the troupe’s family lineage and repertoire to the Edo Shogunate (17th-19th century). Such historical documents indicate the vast possibilities of noh studies beyond the literary analysis of plays.
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- Title:
- Catalog of the Performers of the Four Troupes (2 vols.)
- Title (jp):
- Yoza yakusha mokuroku (jō, ge) 四座役者目録 上・下
- Description:
- ––
- Collection name:
- Kanze Shinkurō Family Collection
- Volume:
- 2
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- Title:
- Inscriptions to the Portrait of Kanze Kojirō Nobumitsu (colophon by Hayashi Dōshun, Kanei 18)
- Title (jp):
- Kanei 18-nen Hayashi Dōshun okugaki Kanze Kojirō Nobumitsu gazō san 寛永十八年林道春奥書観世小次郎信光画像讃
- Description:
- ––
- Collection name:
- Kanze Shinkurō Family Collection
- Volume:
- 1
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- Title:
- Blueprint of the Zeze Castle Noh Stage
- Title (jp):
- Zeze-jō nōbutai sunpōsho 膳所城能舞台寸法書
- Description:
- ––
- Collection name:
- Hosei University Kōzan Collection
- Volume:
- 1
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- Title:
- Drawings of the Edo Castle Noh Stage, Main Hall
- Title (jp):
- Edo-jō honmaru butai no zu 江戸城本丸舞台之図
- Description:
- ––
- Collection name:
- Hosei University Kōzan Collection
- Volume:
- 1
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- Title:
- Blueprint of the Edo Castle Noh Stage, West Hall
- Title (jp):
- Edo-jō nishimaru nōbutai sunpōsho 江戸城西丸能舞台寸法書
- Description:
- ––
- Collection name:
- Hosei University Kōzan Collection
- Volume:
- 1
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- Title:
- Blueprint of the Noh Stages of Kanze, Hōshō, and Izumi-dono
- Title (jp):
- Kanze Hōshō Izumi-dono nōbutai sunpōsho 観世・宝生・和泉殿能舞台寸法書
- Description:
- ––
- Collection name:
- Hosei University Kōzan Collection
- Volume:
- 1
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- Title:
- Picture Scroll of Kanjin-nō in the Kanen, Bunka, and Tempō eras
- Title (jp):
- Kanen Bunka Tenpō Kanjin-nō zukan 寛延・文化・天保勧進能図巻
- Description:
- ––
- Collection name:
- Hosei University Kōzan Collection
- Volume:
- 1
