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Ezra Pound Collection on Japanese Drama

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Pound

American poet and critic, leader of the Imagists, Ezra Pound was also a scholar and respected translator.

The collection contains five typescript translations by Pound of Japanese Noh plays by Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), H. Monogatei, and others, and several essays and miscellaneous notes by Pound relating to Japanese stagecraft. In addition, there are two notebooks, musical notations of Japanese text, and various notes by Ernest Fenollosa, with some annotations by Pound, concerning Japanese drama. Pound was Fenollosa's literary executor and edited several works from his notes on the Noh, a classical form of Japanese dance-drama.

Purchased in 1989 from Howard Woolmer acting as an agent for Omar Pound.

An item list (2 pp.) is available in the Dept.

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Folder inventory added by Peter Runfola '2012 in 2011.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

"Luya", a play by Motokiyo, Typescript with Corrections by Ezra Pound, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Takasago", a Play by Motokiyo, Typescript with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Morihisa", a story from Monogatei, Typescript with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Yeboshi Ori" ("The Hat Maker") by Miyamasu, Typescript with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Hajitomi", Typescript and Carbon Copies with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Danse de la Naissance du Dragon", Choreography with Corrections in French, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Affirmations VI: The 'Image' and the Japanese Classical Stage", Typescript and Carbon with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Japanese Stagecraft, TNs with ANs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ANs and TNs on Noh Theater, with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Unidentified AMs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous AMs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notebook, ANs of Fenollosa on Noh Theater, with some notes by Pound, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Nishiki-gi" by Motokiyo, ANs by Fenollosa, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notebook, Pound's ANs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Notes, ANs by Fenollosa, Pound and Two Others, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Musical Notations with Japanese, AN of Fenollosa, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

TLS from Pound to Tami Kume, 1917 March 14. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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