The Tilted Cup
Noh Stories
Distributed for Sylph Editions
With Photographs by John Tran
44 pages
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10 color plates
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6 x 9 1/2
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© 2013
Paul Griffiths’s The Tilted Cup effects a multilayered translation, taking a series of eleven Japanese Noh plays and turning them into stories in English. The reader will encounter spirit-beings set free, lovers lost and found, dreams and desires fulfilled, lessons learned from nature, and always a longing for the infinite, as the long, slow drama of each Noh play is transformed into a short and moving tale. Interspersed and contrasting with the stories are ten photographs of contemporary Japan by John L. Tran that further explore the relation between theatricality and narrative, while offering hints of a very different vision of infinitude.
Jay Rubin | Times Literary Supplement
“[A] handsome addition to the Cahier series. . . . The stories are presented with a restraint well suited to the dignified aesthetic of Noh theatre, but they can be daring in their inclusion of details and turns of phrase that come not from the original text so much as from images that the texts have suggested to Griffiths.”
Contents
Preface
Tadanori
Hagoromo
Hanjo
Kantan
Teika
Kayoi Komachi
Hachi No Ki
Fumi Yamadachi
Fujisan
Saigyozakura
Sagi
Texts
Images
Colophon
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