Chefs-D'Oeuvre de Tchikamatsou. Le Grand Dramaturge Japonais Masterpieces

by Chikamatsu. The Great Japanese Playwright by Intro., transl, Asataro Miyamori, Charles Jacob, Sylvain Lévi

$125 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Paris: Librairie Ernes Leroux, 1929. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xi, 417 1 pp., 70 plates. Original beige stiff wraps with black lettering and publisher's device on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Works of the highly regarded playwright. Chikamatsu reinvented the banal puppet theater to become a pseudo-epic style: Ningyo-Joruri. He is also credited with turning vulgar juggling acts into performances

• Binding: Softcover

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