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Japanese devoutness and religious care embodied in the Yokyoku texts
Vlachová, Nela ; Švarcová, Zdeňka (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
Japanese Devoutness and Religious Care Embodied in the Yokyoku Texts This Master's thesis deals with the religious issues within the texts of the medieval Noh plays, which are well known as the yokyoku. The thesis begins with an introduction with the main religious notions and the way of thinking in the period of japanese Middle Ages, in the time when the most of the Noh playwrights wrote their plays. Further more, the thesis provides the very first translation of the Noh play called Kinuta into the Czech language, so that it could be possible to thoroughly analyze its text in terms of religious issues' presence. The thesis also submits the similar analysis of other four plays, which deal almost the same topics. That research allows to arrange the list of religious links and references appearing in those texts. The list proves the presence of the religious issues within the particular artistic genre. Another part of the thesis provides a comparison of yokyoku texts with so called setsuwa legends of the Shasekishu collection, which represents a deeply moralizing work from the Middle Ages, just to identify exactly the degree of the religious devoutness within yokyoku texts. The thesis draws on information and knowledge upon the field of the japanese history, the japanese religious, as well as the...
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