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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 Figurines. By William T. Vollmann. New York: HarperCollins, 2010; 528 pp.; illustrations. $17.99 paper, e-book available

  • Isaka M
TDR/The Drama Review (2013) 57(3) 172-174
DOI: 10.1162/dram_r_00290
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Abstract

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.

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Isaka, M. (2013). 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 Figurines. By William T. Vollmann. New York: HarperCollins, 2010; 528 pp.; illustrations. $17.99 paper, e-book available. TDR/The Drama Review, 57(3), 172–174. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_r_00290

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