How do I into Japanese Theatre, that Kabuki and Noh shit. Recommend

Learn Japanese.

>>9470015
Not today

>>9470031
Anything useful to say?

>>9470038

For such a niche topic you're gonna have to be more patient than ten minutes.

>>9470040
Sorry i'm off meds and on caffeine

Zeami's plays and his book ''The Fushikaden''.

>>9470013
> Recommend me some plays worth reading
I'm not really sure why you would want to read rather than watch them. What I would suggest would be finding a translation of a major kabuki or nō play and read along with the performance. There are a lot of these plays on youtube if you are looking for a place to watch them. While I really like bunraku I find that since there is only a narrator who voices everything and he puts on such a strange voice it is hard to reconcile the text and the speech.

>>9470056
>hmm I'm off meds today
>what should I do?
>I know: ingest loads of caffein!

>>9470015
Actually, Kabuki Japanese is so old that modern Japanese people have trouble understanding it, there are headphones with live translation for everybody.

OP: I wouldn't read plays, as these don't really tell you anything, Kabuki is more about makeup, actions, movements, music, little dances than about dialogue. Emotions are expressed via colors, not words.


I've been to a fullday Kabuki event in Fukuoka and it was amazing, even though I didn't understand a word, but that didn't matter since there were not many words anyway.

Begin Japanology from NHK has a few nice videos with basic introductions, they're on youtube. NHK also made/makes Kabuki Kool, a series where they show Kabuki plays with subtitles and explanations, I'd watch that.

Mishima's early plays

Why would you want to get into some medieval shit you can't even appreciate due to your vastly different temporal and cultural surroundings? It's like trying to get into Minnesang.

>>9471241
Don't you shit on Walther von der Vogelweide boyo

got gebe dir hiute und iemer guot!

>>9470013
>I have 0 idea of how that works
It's probably better if you SEE the Japanese traditional theatre before you read anything:

Noh (it's the latter episode of this video, so the link starts the video 28min in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C1WXyiqCs&t=28m

Kabuki:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP47NyeG4wk

Bunraku:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LbCGJzL9K8

>>9471244
Wolfram von Eschenbach's where it's at.

>>9470445
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>>9471250

Thanks guys, will look into all of that

>>9470445

this the good stuff