Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Foreword XIII
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 Zeami, A Wandering Ghost, and the Lotus Sutra: The Story of Giō and Hotoke from Heike Monogatari to Nō 23
6. 3 Giō 41
7. 4 Hotoke no hara (Buddha Field) 53
8. 5 How Giō Saves Her Father’s Life: Innovations to the Giō Legend in Bangai Nō 67
9. 6 Rō-Giō (Giō at the Prison) 83
10. 7 The Battle of Tonamiyama in Bangai Nō 97
11. 8 Kiso 113
12. 9 Kurikara otoshi (The Fall from Kurikara) 123
13. 10 Sanemori: Departure from Oral Narrative 137
14. 11 Sanemori 145
15. 12 Genzai Sanemori 163
16. 13 Shunzei Tadanori: Its Background and Related Plays 169
17. 14 Shunzei Tadanori 183
18. 15 Kiyotsune 195
19. 16 Preachers and Playwrights: Ikuta Atsumori and the Roots of Nō 211
20. 17 Ikuta Atsumori 231
21. 18 Ko Atsumori 247
22. 19 The Heike, the Nō, and Kyōgen Zatō Plays 261
23. 20 Nasu (Kyōgen) 281
24. 21 The Nō Play Shigehira 285
25. 22 Shigehira 293
26. 23 Morihisa and the Cult of Kannon at Kiyomizudera 309
27. 24 Performing Kannon’s Grace: The Nō Morihisa 329
28. 25 Morihisa 349
29. 26 Genre and the Heike Plays in Zeami’s Go on 379
30. 27 Rokudai no utai (The Song about Rokudai) 391
31. 28 Nō as Political Allegory: The Case of Haku Rakuten 399
32. 29 Haku Rakuten 443
33. 30 EPILOGUE The Tale of the Heike in the Theater of the Twentieth Century: Three Examples 463
34. Appendix Nō Plays of the Genpei War, A Finding List
35. Introduction 485
36. Part A Plays listed in the order of episodes in the Kakuichi-bon Heike monogatari 489
37. Part B Plays listed in alphabetical order, with bibliography and notes on selected plays 498
38. Works Cited 519
39. Contributors 536