Richard Gardner

Richard Gardner
Sophia University · Department of Liberal Arts

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Though considerable attention has been given in recent years to Zenchiku’s treatises on noh, Paul Atkins’s Revealed Identity is the first major study in English of his plays. Zeami, perhaps rightly, has always been treated as the central figure in the history of noh, but Zenchiku’s treatises are in many ways more engaging than Zeami’s. And though Z...
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This chapter proposes that noh and kyôgen plays, traditional Japanese performing arts that originated in the 15th century, provide useful materials for teaching about ritual. At the simplest of levels, the plays might be used to illustrate the central importance of ritual in religion. The plays might also be used to teach and reflect on at least so...
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Following the sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subways in March of 1995, considerable effort has been devoted to explaining the rise of Aum Shinrikyõ and its turn to violence. This paper aims to provide a contribution to efforts to understand how Aum has been per- ceived and interpreted in Japan by focusing on one aspect of the reaction to Aum that has...
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Analyse des neuf « dan » des pieces de theâtre japonaises noh, les « Takasago », et du symbolisme du pin. Ces pieces sont liees aux dynamiques sociales, politiques et religieuses du Japon muromachi et affirment le pouvoir des institutions comme mediateurs symboliques entre ce monde-ci et les autres, entre le centre et la peripherie
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Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University. Bibliography: leaves 97-102.
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(Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1988. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-257). "Thesis no. T30470." Microfilm.

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