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The Voices and Hands of Bunraku [Buy it!] | Adachi Barbara and Donald Keene | USD 35.00 (Fri May 31 22:36:52 2024) | ABAA | Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB | Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Date: 1978. Hardcover. VG/VG-. General shelf wear to dust jacket. Owner's sticker on a first page, otherwise clean and tight contents.. Goldenrod cloth with black lettering and design. Black and color-illustrated dust jacket, white and orange-brown lettering. Approx 145 pp. Filled with color plates and BW illustrations. 'Bunraku blends music, action, and narrative so skillfully that the spectator quickly forgets he is watching dolls of wood and cloth rather than live performers; the plays, too, move the audience, being intricate works woven around the themes of sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, and passion.' -- dj flap. 1978. Kodansha International ISBN 087011333x US |