Tsumura Kimiko Mastered All Aspects of Noh, a Traditional Japanese Theater Art Form. She ... - Latest Tweet by

Article contents

Abstract
References

Abstruse

This study examines the revolution of ideas surrounding the torso in 1950s Nihon from the perspective of ii women dancers, Noh dancer Tsumura Kimiko (1902–74) and butoh dancer Motofuji Akiko (1928–2003). By contrasting one mid-twentieth-century view—that the postwar era offered a gamble to "liberate" individual bodies—with the properties of continued control over bodies exercised by large institutions, I start show that this perceived rupture was not as stark equally it initially appears. Moreover, I show how Tsumura and Motofuji rejected popular ideas about the body's purpose to forge their ain. This allowed them to critique and face up the issues that popular views presented, especially for disabled or gendered bodies. These bug involved increasing urbanization and the handling of bodies based upon their desirability. This article argues that Tsumura's and Motofuji's conceptions of "trunk" challenged gender norms and presented new ideas about how to live.

Keywords

Type: Enquiry Article
Information
Copyright: Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022

Admission options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will cheque for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have admission.)

References

Baird, Bruce . 2012. Dancing in a Puddle of Greyness Grits: Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Hairdresser, Stephen . 2007. Hijikata: Revolt of the Torso. London: Creation.Google Scholar

Broinowski, Adam . 2016. Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body during and afterwards the Cold War. London: Bloomsbury.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Coker, Caitlin . 2015. "Butoh Bodies: Daily Practise and Communal Living of Butoh Dancers in Modern Japan." The Zinbun Gakuhō: Journal of Humanities 107:73–101.Google Scholar

Copeland, Rebecca . 2010. "Art beyond Language: Japanese Women Artists and the Feminist Imagination." In Imagination Without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibleness, edited by Hein, Laura Elizabeth and Jennison, Rebecca , 51–67. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.Google Scholar

Dower, John . 1999. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of Earth State of war II. New York: W. W. Norton.Google Scholar

Dumont, Éric , and Manigot, Vincent . 2016. "A History of Japanese Striptease." Translated by K. Grimwade. Cipango- French Journal of Japanese Studies 5:ane–xxx.Google Scholar

Eckersall, Peter . 2006. Theorizing the Angura Rapidly: Advanced Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960–2000. Leiden: Brill.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Eubanks, Catherine . 2019. The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Nippon. Honolulu: Academy of Hawai'i Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Foucault, Michel . 2003. Club Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–78. Translated by Macey, David . London: Penguin.Google Scholar

Fraleigh, Sondra . 2016. "Butoh Translations and the Suffering of Nature." Performance Research 21 (4): 61–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Giannschi, Gabriella , and Stewart, Nigel . 2006. Performing Nature: Explorations of Ecology in the Arts. Oxford: Lang.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Harada, Hiromi . 2004. Butoh Complete Works: The Kingdom of Utter Darkness and Light. Tokyo: Gendai Shokan.Google Scholar

Hosoe, Eikoh . 2012. Portraits: Artists' Younger Days. Tokyo: Kokusho Kankōkai.Google Scholar

Igarashi, Yoshikuni . 2000. Bodies of Retention: Narratives of War in Mail-state of war Japanese Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar

Innami, Fusako . 2021. "Falling Dance: Hijikata's Recomposition of the Body via Bacon." The Senses and Club 16 (1): 1–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Ito, Maki . 2005. "To Sketch the Life of Komachi: Tsumura Kimiko'southward New Noh Play Fumigara ." Drama Studies: Bulletin of the Nihon Theater Association 43:209–23.Google Scholar

Jesty, Justin . 2018. Fine art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan. Ithaca, Due north.Y.: Cornell Academy Printing.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Kanamori, Atsuko . 1994. Birth of a Woman: The Life of Noh Performer Kimiko Tsumura. Tokyo: Housei Daigaku Shuppan Kyoku.Google Scholar

Kramm, Robert . 2017. Sanitized Sexual practice: Regulating Prostitution, Crabs Illness, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952. Oakland: University of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

KuroDalaiJee. 2010. Anarchy of the Body: Undercurrents of Performance Art in 1960s Nihon. Tokyo: Grambooks.Google Scholar

Madhavan, Arya . 2017. Women in Asian Performance: Aesthetics and Politics. London: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Marotti, William . 2013. Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Printing.Google Scholar

Maruki, Yasutaka . 2013. "Tsumura Kimiko and Resurgence of Traditional Noh Theater." Asian Culture and History v (two): 164–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Mezur, Katherine . 2020. "Cracking History's Codes in Crocodile Time: The Sweat, Powder, and Glitter of Women Butoh Artists' Collective Choreography." In Corporeal Politics: Dancing East asia, edited past Mezur, Katherine and Wilcox, Emily , 261–83. Ann Arbor: Academy of Michigan Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Mishima, Yukio . 2018. "Contemporary Nightmare: An Avant-garde Dance Group Dances Forbidden Colors ." In The Routledge Companion to Butoh Functioning, edited past Baird, Bruce and Candelario, Rosemary , 52–53. London: Routledge.Google Scholar

Moore, Katrina . 2014. The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Subject area in Urban Nihon. Albany: Land University of New York Printing.Google Scholar

Morishita, Takashi . 2014. Hijikata Tatsumi: Butoh Primary: Photo Anthology. Tokyo: Bensei Publishing.Google Scholar

Motofuji, Akiko . 1990. Together with Hijikata Tatsumi. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo.Google Scholar

Nakamura, Jessica . 2018. "Reflecting on the Unknowns of History: Theatrical Ghosting, Transgenerational Remembrance, and Japanese Imperialism in the Seoul Shimin Play Series." Modern Drama 61 (ii): 149–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Orbaugh, Sharalyn . 2007. Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity. Leiden: Brill.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Papp, Melinda . 2012. "Conspicuous Consumption in Postwar Japan: The Case of a Rite of Passage." Human Affairs 22 (2): 196–213.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Sanders, Holly . 2010. "Panpan: Streetwalking in Occupied Japan." Pacific Historical Review 81 (3): 404–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Sas, Miryam . 2011. Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center.Google Scholar

Sontag, Susan . 1978. Illness as Metaphor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Google Scholar

SU-EN. 2018. "Light equally Grit, Hard as Steel, Fluid as Snake Saliva: The Butoh Body of Ashikawa Yoko." In The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, edited by Baird, Bruce and Candelario, Rosemary , 203–13. London: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Taylor, Diana . 2003. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham, Due north.C.: Knuckles University Printing.Google Scholar

Teele, Rebecca , Teele, Nicholas , and Teele, Roy . 1993. Ono no Komachi: Poems, Stories, Nō Plays. London: Garland.Google Scholar

Tsumura, Reijiro . 1987. Chirikuru Hanani. Tokyo: Ryokusen-kai.Google Scholar

Vangeline. 2020. Cradling Empty Space. New York: New York Butoh Found.Google Scholar

Wolz, Carl . 1975. "Dance in the Noh Theatre." The World of Music 17 (3): 26–32.Google Scholar

Yamamoto, Taketoshi , ed. 2009. Throbbing Flesh. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.Google Scholar

Yamanaka, Reiko . 2015. "Expressive style in Noh: Monologue, Memory and Move." In Expressions of the Invisible: A Comparative Study of Noh and Other Theatrical Traditions, edited by Watson, Michael and Yamanaka, Reiko , 43–63. Tokyo: Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Found, Hosei University.Google Scholar

Yokata, Gerry . 2012. "Innovation by Contemporary Women Artists in the Classical Noh Drama of Nippon." In Proceedings of the 6th Biennial International Gender and Language Association Briefing I GALA, edited by Maree, Claire and Satoh, Kyoko , 427–34. Tokyo: Tsuda College.Google Scholar

Yoshimi, Shunya . 2003. "'America' as Violence and Want: Americanisation in Postwar Japan and Asia During the Cold War." Translated by David Buist. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4 (3): 433–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/article/body-of-knowledge-women-the-body-and-dance-in-postwar-japan/CCA56CB1218BBA5ED32B6BD2A3FE7760

Posted by: cookanighbold.blogspot.com