"Shunkan on Devil Island": Domesticating Political Exile in the Japanese Puppet Play “Heike nōgyo no shima”
This essay discusses the scene entitled Shunkan on Devil Island from Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s early modern puppet play The Heike on the Island of Women as a commentary on social and political strictures of the early modern Tokugawa shogunate, which increasingly regulated social and commercial life...
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Milano University Press
2023-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoqu/article/view/22207 |