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This talk explores the staging of the noh repertoire’s most literary plays, Ohara gokō, a work based on “The Initiates’ Scroll (Kanjō no maki),” a “secret text (hiji)” associated with the Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari). Through a close reading of the play, including stage directions and the use of set pieces and props, we will explore the role played by invisible and imaginary spaces in a play focused on memory and loss.

Elizabeth Oyler is associate professor and chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on medieval narrative and drama connected to the Genpei War. Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age, which she co-edited with Katherine Saltzman-Li, is her most recent publication.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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