Author: Jadwiga M. Rodowicz
Date: April 2009
ISBN: 978-83-61835-00-4
Dimensions: 168x238 mm

 

Fragment of the book:

This publication was funded by The Japan Foundation and The Takashima Foundation. 

‘This book, exploring three examples of Noh plays, explains how the rules of perception in the ancient world can manifest in a work of art. According to those rules, all of nature, human surroundings, and the human being himself comprise the indivisible and living DIVINE BINOMIAL – one world in which those alive associate with the dead. Thanks to the invention of Ability (for this is the original meaning of the word Noh), the human being transforms the limitations of “here and now” into a continuation of eternity, in which eternity is not shapeless – rather, it is colorful and full of form’. (an extract from the book) 
 

Jadwiga M. Rodowicz

Born in Silesia to a family with strong insurgent traditions. Rodowicz is a diplomat and a specialist in Japanese art and culture. She graduated from Warsaw University with a PhD (1982) and studied at the Tokyo University, where she learned Noh theatre in Tessenkai under the supervision of Kanze Tetsunojo. In 1979–1989, she was a company member at the Centre for Theatre Practices “Gardzienice”. For many years, she led didactic work in Japan Studies at University of Warsaw. Since 1993, she has been working in Polish diplomacy, and since 2008, she is the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Japan.