BIBLIOGRAPHY

Latest update: 2022-09-30

REFERENCE BOOKS & ENCYCLOPEDIA
 

  • Kabuki Jinmei Jiten
    Nojima Jusaburô
    Nichigai 1988
    Japanese
  • New Kabuki Encyclopedia
    Samuel Leiter
    Greenwood Press 1997
    English
  • Kabuki Jôruri Gedai Yomikata Jiten
    Nojima Jusaburô
    Nichigai Associates 1990
    Japanese
  • Kabuki Jiten
    Hattori Yukio, Tomita Tetsunosuke, Hirosue Tamotsu
    Heibonsha 1983 (I) 2000
    Japanese
  • Kabuki Nenpyô
    Ihara Seiseien, Kawatake Shigetoshi, Yoshida Eiji
    Iwanami Shoten 1956 (I) 1973 (II)
    Japanese
  • Kabuki Haiyû Meiseki Benran
    Collective work
    National Theatre 1968 (I) 2012 (IV)
    Japanese
  • Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre
    Samuel L. Leiter
    Scarecrow Press 2006 (I)
    English
  • KABUKI
     

  • Kabuki
    Masakatsu Gunji
    Kôdansha 1985 (I), 1988 (II)
    English
  • Le Kabuki devant la modernité
    Jean-Jacques Tschudin
    L'âge d'homme 1995
    French
  • Kabuki: Baroque Fusion of the Arts
    Kawatake Toshio
    International House of Japan 2003 (I)
    English
  • Kabuki Kanshô Gaidô
    Collective work
    Shôgakukan 1996 (I) 1998 (VIII)
    Japanese
  • Kabuki Nyûmon
    Fukuchi Yoshihiko
    Fujingahôsha 1995 (I) 1998 (III)
    Japanese
  • Kabuki: a pocket guide
    Ronald Cavaye
    Tuttle 1993
    English
  • Kabuki, the Popular Stage of Japan
    Zoë Kincaid
    Macmillan 1925
    English
  • The Kabuki Theatre
    Earle Ernst
    Oxford University Press 1956
    English
  • Kabuki ni miru Nihonshi
    Satô Kosuke
    Shôgakukan 1999
    Japanese
  • The Kabuki Theatre of Japan
    A. C. Scott
    Allen & Unwin 1955
    English
  • Kabuki Kyarakutâ Jiten
    Aramata Hiroshi, Imai Kaoru
    Shinshokan 1987 (I) 1995 (V)
    Japanese
  • Kabuki: Design Aesthetics
    Iwata Akira
    Tôhô 1995 (I) 1997 (III)
    Japanese
  • Grand Kabuki Overseas Tours
    Collective work
    Shôchiku 1994 (I)
    English
  • The Actors' Analects
    Charles J. Dunn and Torigoe Bunzô
    Columbia University Press 1969 (I)
    English/Japanese
  • Six Kabuki Plays
    Donald Richie
    The Hokuseidô Press 1963
    English
  • Hyakunin no Kabuki Haiyû
    Collective work
    Engeki Shuppansha 1955 (I)
    Japanese
  • A Kabuki reader: history and performance
    Samuel L. Leiter
    M.E. Sharpe 2001 (I)
    English
  • Kabuki Costume
    Ruth M. Shaver
    Tuttle 1966 (I)
    English
  • Ôhashiya : Onoe Kôzô to Monzaburô
    Fujima Kôzaburô
    Fujima-ryû Monzaburô-ha Jimusho 1984 (I)
    Japanese
  • Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965
    Samuel L. Leiter
    Global Oriental 2013 (I)
    English
  • JAPANESE THEATER
     

  • A guide to the Japanese Stage
    Ronald Cavaye, Paul Griffith, Senda Akihiko
    Kôdansha 2004 (I)
    English
  • Théâtre classique du Japon
    René Sieffert, Michel Wasserman
    P.O.F. 1983
    French
  • Japanese Theatre
    Faubion Bowers
    Hermitage House 1952
    English
  • Japanese Theatre
    Faubion Bowers, Joshua Logan
    Hill and Wang 1959
    English
  • Japanese Theater
    Faubion Bowers
    Tuttle 1974 (I) 1980 (III)
    English
  • The Puppet Theatre of Japan
    A. C. Scott
    Tuttle 1963 (I)
    English
  • KABUKI PLAYS
     

  • The Kabuki Handbook
    Aubrey and Giovanna Halford
    Tuttle 1956 (I) 1998 (XVI)
    English
  • Kabuki Techô
    Watanabe Tamotsu
    1982 (I) 1998 (XII)
    Japanese
  • Kabuki Meisaku Jiten
    Collective work
    Engekikai 1996 (I) 1998 (II)
    Japanese
  • Buyô Meisaku Jiten
    Collective work
    Engekikai 1999 (I)
    Japanese
  • Le Kabuki et ses écrivains
    Pierre Faure
    L'asiathèque 1977
    French
  • Old Japanese Dramas
    Miyamori Asatarô
    G. P. Putnam's Sons 1915 (I)
    English
  • Kabuki Plays On Stage
    Volume I: Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1770 (13 plays)
    Volume II: Villainy and Vengeance: 1770-1800 (12 plays)
    Volume III: Darkness and Desire: 1800-1868 (14 plays)
    Volume IV: Restoration and Reform: 1868-1905 (12 plays)

    Edited by James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter
    University of Hawaii Press (2002~2003)
    English
  • The Love of Izayoi & Seishin: A Kabuki Play by Kawatake Mokuami
    Kawatake Mokuami
    Tuttle Publishing 1966 (I)
    English
  • Creating Kabuki Plays: Context for Kezairoku, "Valuable Notes on Playwriting"
    Katherine Saltzman-Li
    Brill's Japanese Studies Library (2005)
    English
  • KABUKI PERFORMANCES
     

  • Jôen Shiryô-shû 364: Heike Nyogo no Shima
    Collective work
    National Theatre 1995 (I)
    Japanese
  • Jôen Shiryô-shû 377: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
    Collective work
    National Theatre 1996 (I)
    Japanese
  • ACTORS
     

  • Kabuki Backstage, Onstage
    Nakamura Matazô
    Kôdansha International 1990
    English
  • Senjaku Kamigatagei to Chikamatsu
    Iwata Akira, Ishibashi Ken'ichirô
    Kyôto Shoin 1989 (I)
    Japanese/English
  • PLAYWRIGHTS
     

  • Major Plays of Chikamatsu
    Donald Keene
    Columbia University Press 1961 (I)
    English
  • Kabuki In Modern Japan: Mayama Seika And His Plays
    Brian Powell
    Springer 1990 (I)
    English
  • PRINTS
     

  • The Actor's Image
    Timothy T. Clark, Osamu Ueda
    The Art Institute of Chicago 1994
    English
  • Andô Hiroshige
    Takahashi Seiichirô, Charles Terry
    Tuttle 1956
    English
  • Kokon Yakusha Nigao Taizen
    Collective work
    The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University 1998
    Japanese
  • Sharaku's Japanese Theater Prints
    Harold G. Henderson & Louis V. Ledoux
    Dover Publications 1984 (I)
    English
  • MISCELLANEOUS
     

  • Japanese Music and Musical Instruments
    William Malm
    Tuttle 1959
    English
  • Tokugawa Japan
    (The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan)
    Nakane Chie and Ôishi Shinzaburô
    University of Tôkyô Press (March 23, 1992)
    English
  • A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer
    Eugenio Barba, Nicola Savarese
    Taylor & Francis 2005 (I)
    English
  • The Life of an Amorous Woman: And Other Writings
    Ihara Saikaku
    New Directions Publishing 1963 (I)
    English
  • The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan
    Takekoshi Yosaburô
    G. Allen & Unwin (1930), Routledge (2004)
    English
  • Neighborhood and Nation in Tôkyô, 1905–1937
    Sally Ann Hastings
    University of Pittsburgh (1995)
    English
  • 18th Century Japan: Culture and Society
    C. Andrew Gerstle
    Routledge (2000)
    English
  • Historical Dictionary of Tôkyô
    Roman Cybriwsky
    Scarecrow Press 1996 (I) 2011 (II)
    English
  • In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature
    Jim Reichert
    Stanford University Press 2006 (I)
    English
  • Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson
    Kodansha International (2000)
    English
  • Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan
    Cecilia Segawa Seigle
    University of Hawaii Press (1993)
    English
  • Traditional Japanese Furniture
    Koizumi Kazuko
    Kodansha International 1986 (I)
    English
  • Japan Encyclopedia
    Louis Frédéric
    Harvard University Press 2002 (I)
    English
  • Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness
    K. Mezur
    Springer 2005 (I)
    English
  • Eloquent Zen: Daitô and Early Japanese Zen
    Kenneth Kraft
    University of Hawaii Press 1997 (I)
    English
  • Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from 10th Century Japan
    Helen Craig McCullough
    Stanford University Press 1968 (I)
    English
  • Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre: From Hamlet to Madame Butterfly
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    Palgrave Macmillan 2008 (I)
    English
  • Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Yôkai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces
    Ei Nakau
    PIE International 2017 (I)
    Japanese/English
  • Tokyo Roji: The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition
    Heide Imai
    Routledge 2017 (I)
    English
  • Legend in Japanese art; a description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folklore myths, religious symbolism 
    Henri L. Joly
    The Bodley Head 1908 (I)
    English
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