Author: Matisoff, Susan
Title: The Legend of Semimaru: The Blind Musician of Japan
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi,290 pp, Series: Columbia University, Studies in Oriental Culture, Nr. 44.. Frontispiece. Binding corner bumps, rubbed, slight page-edge soil, VG. dustwr ¶ Contents: The Legend: Semimaru of Ausaka; The Backround Affecting the Legend; The Literature of the Legend; The No 'Semimaru' & 'Ausaka Madman'; Tokugawa Period Reinterpretations of the Semimaru Legend; Texts: Poems & Prose Selections; Zeami's 'Semimaru'; Zeami's 'Ausaka Madman'; Chikamatsu' s 'Semimaru'.

Keywords: Japanese Literature, Japan, Literary History, Semimaru of Ausaka, Legend Legends, Folklore, East Asia, ,