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Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figures
Title:
Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figures
Author:
Vollmann, William T.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Ecco, [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
xxi, 504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
Explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries and extracts the secrets of staged femininity and the mystery of perceived and expressed beauty.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780061228483
Format :
Book