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JPARC invites you to access the nōgaku (Noh theater studies) section of the new website : jparc.online/nogaku

JPARC aims to provide researchers, students, teachers, and theatre practitioners with high-quality materials and up-to-date scholarship on Japanese performing arts. It supports:

1. Databases that collect and display multimedia materials related to performance, such as masks, costumes, stage properties, illustrations, and photographs of staged productions.
2. A website presenting textual and multimedia content organized by performance type, each with modules on history, performance elements, plays, playwrights, performers, and historical illustrations.

This older JPARC site includes sections for the analysis of certain topics, multimedia articles, and reference materials such as glossaries, bibliographies, browsing indexes, and timelines. Modules are collections of Web pages devoted to a specific topic such as important theatrical figures or readings and productions of a single piece. For a tour of this site, see the video Welcome to JPARC!

Selected JPARC Sections

			Reference Resources
	Prints - Kabuki Playbills 歌舞伎・浄瑠璃　番付	Kabuki Dance Techniques 歌舞伎舞踊	Bibliography of Translations Glossary of Terms　 Browse Index of Pieces　 Browse Index of Performers
	Noh as Performance 能とその演出	Intro to Bunraku 文楽入門	Japanese Theatre in Russia
	Playwrights - Zeami 世阿弥	Public Noh in 19th Century 勧進能	Bangai Noh Plays 番外謡曲

All sections in JPARC use materials from the Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD), a multilingual, Web-accessible database of media and information on the performing arts. Follow links to view records for individual images, videos, piece or person names, or production records on the http://www.glopad.org" title="GloPAD" target="_blank">GloPAD public interface.

All sections on JPARC can be reached using the menu on the sidebar to the left.
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