Date
2017
Edition Size
24
Media
Intaglio print, Letterpress, Photogravure
Binding
Hand-sewn
Dimensions
12.5 × 8.25 in
Pages
60
Location
Hamburg, Germany
Enclosure
Bamboo box
Collection
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Nō IV – Sotoba Komachi is a Japanese Nō theatre play. Text by Kan’ami Kiyotsugu (観阿弥 清次) (1333-1384 AD) with the poetess Ono no Komachi (* ~ 825 AD). Endpaper-text by Zeami Motokiyo 世阿弥 元清 from The Secret Tradition of the Nō Game by Zeami Motokiyo 世阿弥 元清, b. 1363.
This copy of the book has a German text and a Japanese text by Cho Sookok. An English translation of the text in an elegant pamphlet by Royall Tyler accompanies this copy of the book. The images and Japanese text were engraved as photogravures.