Ozu question

[Julie Nelson Davis]

Hello again, 

I found the answer to my Ozu question, and thought I'd pass it along, 
just in case it piqued someone else's interest.

The Noh play is _Morikawa_, which Bordwell described as:  ". . . an 
explicit parallel [to _Late Spring_] in its depiction of an aristocratic 
woman driven into a frenzy by the memory of a lost lover." (_Ozu and the 
Poetic of Cinema_, p. 310)  

I'm embarrassed not to have looked here before bothering everyone on the 
list!  Gomen nasai.

Julie Davis

>Hello,
>
>I am completely new to the list, although I have loitered about the 
>website for some time, and am hoping that I might rely upon the experise 
>of those on the list for some assistance.
>
>I am also an amateur in the field of film studies, having been trained as 
>an art historian, and am now teaching a Japanese cinema course with an 
>emphasis on film as an extension of the "visual continuum" of Japanese 
>culture.  There are many connections between cinema and more traditional 
>media, and we are primarily involved in those kinds of concerns.
>
>As an art historian, my area of specialization is in ukiyo-e prints, and 
>I wrote my dissertation on the famous print artist, Kitagawa Utamaro.  I 
>am more familiar, of course, with visual works in the pre-modern period, 
>but am increasingly intrigued by film.
>
>I would also like to ask a question of the list regarding Ozu's _Late 
>Spring_. Has the Noh play been identified?  And do what know what exactly 
>is going on in the play at that moment? I have not seen this discussed in 
>the sources I have briefly consulted, and hope that someone might point 
>me in the right direction.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Julie Nelson Davis
>Lecturer, Japanese Art History
>School of Art, University of Washington