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Kabuki plays

Here are entered the texts of the Kabuki plays and works treating of them from a literary point of view. General works and those that deal solely with the presentation of Kabuki plays on the stage are entered under Kabuki.

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• Japanese drama

• Kyakuhon kessakushū : kōtei / (Tōkyō : Hakubunkan, Meiji 32-35 [1899-1902]), by Futō Mizutani and Hakubunkan. Henshūkyoku (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ichikawa Sadanji / (Tōkyō : Kōbunsha, Taishō 8 [1919]), by Yutaka Abe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ichimura Uzaemon / (Tōkyō : Kyōbunsha, Taishō 11 [1922]), by Yutaka Abe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jitsukawa Enjaku / (Tōkyō : Kyōbunsha, Taishō 11 [1922]), by Yutaka Abe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Onoe Kikugorō / (Tōkyō : Kyōbunsha, Taishō 11 [1922]), by Yutaka Abe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nakamura Utaemon / (Tōkyō : Kōbunsha, Taishō 8 [1919]), by Yutaka Abe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kyōgen hyakushu. (Tōkyō : Shunʼyōdō, Meiji 25-26 [1892-93]), by Mokuami Kawatake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shibai to shijitsu / (Tōkyō : Seikyōsha, Meiji 44 [1911]), by Engyo Mitamura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ichikawa Yaozō katami no utsushie /, by Sorobē Kadota (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jōruri monku hyōchū Naniwa miyage / (Tōkyō : Bunkendō Shoten, Taishō 15 [1926]), by Kazutoshi Ueda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kyakuhonshū / (Tōkyō : Yūhōdō, Taishō 15 [1926]), by Tetsuzō Tsukamoto and Shigeki Minami (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Genroku kabuki kessakushū / ([Tōkyō] : Waseda Daigaku Shuppanbu, [Taishō 14 i. e. 1925]), by Tatsuyuki Takano and Kanzō Kuroki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shijitsu yori mita kabuki shibai / (Tōkyō : Sōbundō, Taishō 12 [1923]), by Engyo Mitamura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Jōruri meisakushū / (Tōkyō : Yūhōdō, Taishō 3-4 [1914-1915]), by Matsuyama Yonetarō (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yōkyoku shūyō shō / (Tōkyō : Kanze-ryū Kaiteibon Kankōkai, Meiji 45 [1912]), by Teijo Inui and Katsura Maruoka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shibai no ura omote / (Tōkyō : Genbunsha, Taishō 9 [1920]), by Engyo Mitamura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Edo sakusha jōrurishū : kōtei / (Tōkyō : Hakubunkan, Meiji 31 [1898]), by Futō Mizutani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Certain noble plays of Japan / (Churchtown, Dundrum : The Cuala Press, 1916), by Ernest Fenollosa, W. B. Yeats, Ujinobu, Zeami, and Ezra Pound, contrib. by Cuala Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nō Jōruri Kabuki / (Tōkyō : Ōfūsha, Shōwa 42[1967]), by Jirō Yamamoto and Gensei Tokue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese plays (versified) / (Yokohama, 1879), by Thomas Russell Hillier McClatchie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kyakuhon kessakushū : kōtei / (Tōkyō : Hakubunkan, Meiji 32-35 [1899-1902]), by Futō Mizutani and Hakubunkan. Henshūkyoku (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plays of old Japan, the 'Nō' / (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1913), by Marie Carmichael Stopes and Jōji Sakurai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten kiogen in English / (Tokyo : Tozaisha, 1907), trans. by Yoné Noguchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pine-tree (Matsu) a drama adapted from the Japanese; (New York : Duffield, 1916), by Izumo Takeda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes sur le théâtre japonais / ([France : Bibliothèque de l'Effort, 1900?]), by Alexandre Bénazet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le théâtre au Japan : esquisse d'une histoire littéraire / (Paris : E. Leroux, 1901), by Alexandre Bénazet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kyakuhon kessakushū. (Tōkyō : Kōryōsha, Taishō 5 [1916]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yōkyokushū / (Tōkyō : Yūhōdō, Taishō 7 [1918]), by Hachirō Nomura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jōruri meisakushū / (Tōkyō : Yūhōdō, Taishō 6-7 [1917-1918]), by Matsuyama Yonetarō (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cinq nô; drames lyriques japonais, (Paris, Bossard, 1921), by Noël Peri, Kiyotsugu Kwanze, Motokiyo Kwanze, and Jean Buhot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japanese plays (versified) / (Yokohama, 1879), by Thos. McClatchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese plays (versified) / (Yokohama, 1879), by Thos. McClatchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tōjūrō's love, and four other plays / ([Tokyo] : Hokuseido Press, 1956, c1925), by Hiroshi Kikuchi and Glenn W. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Engeki nenkan / (Tōkyō-shi : Nishōdō Shoten, Taishō 14 [1925]-), by Waseda Daigaku Engeki Hakubutsukan, Nihon Engeki Kyōkai, and Nihon Nenkan Kyōkai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Edo jidai gikyoku shōsetsu tsūshi / (Tōkyō : Seishidō Shoten, 1894]), by Sōmokuen Shujin and Sutejirō Hori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shibai to shijitsu / (Tōkyō : Seikyōsha, Meiji 44 [1911]), by Engyo Mitamura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kabuki, the popular stage of Japan, (London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1925), by Zoë Kincaid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El drama lirico japones, las danzas No, Nogaku. (Tokyo [Fuku-Den-Kwai], 1919), by Francisco Rivas VicuÆna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pine-tree (Matsu) a drama, adapted from the Japanese; (New York, Duffield, 1916), by Izumo Takeda and M. C. Marcus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chikamatsu kenkyū no johen / (Tōkyō : Musashino Shoin, Taishō 14 [1925]), by Haruzō Maejima (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nō plays of Japan, (London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd., [1921]), by Arthur Waley, O. (Oswald Sickert), and Oswald Sickert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plays of old Japan, the 'Nō'; (London, W, Heinemann, 1913), by Marie Carmichael Stopes and Sakuraim Jōji (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pine-tree (Matsu) a drama, adapted from the Japanese; (London, The Iris publishing company, [1916]), by Izumo Takeda and M. C. Marcus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Albanische Forschungen. (Wien : Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1871), by Franz Miklosich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese plays and playfellows / (New York : John Lane, 1901), by Osman Edwards and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le théâtre au Japon ; ses rapports avec les cultes locaux. (Paris, E. Leroux, 1901), by Alexandre Bénazet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japanese plays and playfellows, (London, W. Heinemann, 1901), by Osman Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kyakuhonshū / (Tōkyō : Yūhōdō, Taishō 15 [1926]), by Tetsuzō Tsukamoto and Shigeki Minami (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Entführung der Europa auf antiken Kunstwerken / (Wien : Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1870), by Otto Jahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese theatre. Foreword by Joshua Logan. (New York Hermitage House, [c1952]), by Faubion Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nos alliés d'Extrême-Orient. (Paris, Payot & Cie, 1918), by Auguste Gérard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kyōgen zenshū / (Tōkyō : Hakubunkan, Meiji 36-43 [1903-1910]), by Rohan Kōda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plays of old Japan. (New York, Thomas Seltzer, 1921), by Leo Duran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese plays and playfellows / (New York, J. Lane, 1901), by Osman Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from old Japanese dramas. (New York, G.P. Putnam, 1915), by Asatarō Miyamori and Stanley Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese plays (versified). (London, W. H. Allen & co., 1890), by Thomas Russell Hillier McClatchie, ed. by Ernest S. McClatchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese Plays and Playfellows, by Osman Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)

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