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Asia. June 1938

1938

Yet much may be found in common between the unfolding of the deeds of the shadow-actors of the films and the flowing patterns made by the inanimate figures on the ningyo stage Like the actors of the old silent screen the ningyo are speechless. [...] Joruri the text of the ningyo plays and the music which accompanies it is like the opera of the West : it can be sung off the stage and that is one reason why it has such a hold upon the affections of the Japanese people. [...] One of the most truly theatrical effects of the ningyo handlers is the manner in which they drag one foot after the other in response to the rhythm of the peformance Something like this existed on the Shakspearean stage when tragedians brethren of the buskin trod the boards but in the case of the ningyo manipulators the peculiar gait is much more exagerated. [...] The ningyo stage has thus two methods the personal and the impersonal one or the other being selected to suit the manner of the production and the convenience of the most experenced and creative players or of the minstrel whose voice in some special drama is greatly in demand. [...] Wonderfully rich in types these plays exploit the stingy and the generous the simple rustic the courageous samurai the person of no importance the flatterer fawning at the feet of the highly-born.
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Pages
60
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120323
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Richard Walsh view
Frontmatter
ii-ii Richard Walsh view
The Month in the Orient
331-334 Richard Walsh view
Paradise Defiled
335-337 Lin Yutang view
Japan’s New Need: American Steels Machines and Oils
338-340 Eliot Janeway view
Artists of the Ningyo Stage
341-345 Zoe Kincaid view
Britain Comes to Terms
346-348 Robert Woolbert view
Politics Along the Nile
349-364 Albert Viton view
China Finances her War
365-368 Johannes Ahlers view
China Moves Inland
369-374 Anna Strong view
Muslim Internationalism
375-379 M. Ziauddin view
Marginal Notes
380-380 Richard Walsh view
Trade Currents
381-381 Eliot Janeway view
Asia Book-Shelf
382-386 Richard Walsh view
Backmatter
i-ii Richard Walsh view

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