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They are all frontal images showing the back of the scroll. </div><div class="left_side" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "><br></div><div class="left_side" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center; ">Markus</div><div class="left_side" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "><br></div><div class="left_side" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "><br></div><div class="left_side" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.enpaku.waseda.ac.jp/db/enpakunishik/results-big.php?shiryo_no=201-0950" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); ">http://www.enpaku.waseda.ac.jp/db/enpakunishik/results-big.php?shiryo_no=201-0950</a></div></td></tr><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "></span><tr><td><div class="left_side" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.enpaku.waseda.ac.jp/db/enpakunishik/results-big.php?shiryo_no=201-0983" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); 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<br><div><div>On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Junkerman John wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
<div>Hey Markus,</div><div><br></div><div>I think this is a reference to the Kabuki play "Kanjincho" (The Subscription List). Benkei and Yoshitsune get through a checkpoint disguised as Buddhist priests, but since they're only in disguise, the "subscription list" Benkei reads from is actually blank. After they're let through the checkpoint, the chorus sings</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times; color:black"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"><i>Having trod the tiger's tail</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"><i>and escaped the viper's venom,</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"><i>they go on their way, </i></font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times; color:black"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"><i>on to the province of Mutsu.</i></font></div></span></i></span> </span><!--EndFragment--> </i></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div>John</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></span></div><br><div><div>On Jan 27, 2011, at 12:22 AM, Nornes, Markus wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">In Kurosawa's Men Who Tread, there is a scene where Okochi Denjiro takes out a scroll, unravels it and reads it. However, Enoken is thrown for a loop when he sees that the paper is completely blank, which the camera dramatically emphasizes with a wonderful truck up and around the scroll. <div><br></div><div>Is this a convention of Noh or Kabuki performance, writing not being necessary because of the formalist nature of the dramaturgy? Or is it a reference to a specific play (or plays?)?</div><div><br></div><div>I have heard of Chinese opera films with the same phenomenon. Can anyone think of other examples?</div><div><br></div><div>Markus<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><b><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">A. 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