"Translations of 19 nô and nine kyôgen plays seeking to 'produce English poetry which reproduces the "texture of the Japanese"' . . . an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of nô in the original." --Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese
Author Biography
Royall Tyler is the most recent translator of The Tale of Genji (Penguin, 2001). He lives in Australia.
