Circles of Fantasy

Preliminary Material --Introduction --Musical Conventions --Mosaic Form --Cyclical Imagination --Descent to Paradise --Circles of Felicity --Preface to A Collection of Bamboo shoots (1678) /Uji Kaganojō --Preface to The 1687 Gidayū Collection of Jōruri Scenes --Notes --Theatrical Terms --Major Musical Notation --Structural Units of Jōruri Plays --Bibliography --Index --Harvard East Asian Monographs.