JPARC Home Page

This site is currently under construction (we plan to officially publish the site in the summer of 2008)

JPARC is an online resource center for research on and the study of the performing arts of Japan. The site includes Research Modules, Learning Modules, and reference material such as a glossary, bibliography, and timeline. Modules are collections of Web pages devoted to a specific topic such as important threatical figures or readings and productions of a single piece.

  Research Modules
Learning Modules
 
  Noh Playwright Zeami - 世阿弥 Adachi Introduction to Bunraku - 文楽入門
 
  Noh Kyōgen Performance - 能楽演史 Noh as Performance - 能とその演出  
  Nobumitsu and Zenpō - The Water Station - Mizu no eki - 水の駅
 
  Bunraku Puppet Theatre - Noh Stage Tour -
 
  Theatre Illustrations -
   
  Scenery and Props - 大・小 道具
   
  Bangai Noh - 番外能
   

All modules and pages in JPARC use materials from the Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD), a multilingual, Web-accessible database of media and information on the performing arts. Follow links to view records for individual images, videos, piece or person names, or production records on the GloPAD public interface.

Browse through the various modules on JPARC using the menu on the sidebar to the left.

If you are new to this Resource Center, but remember a different JPARC Web site, you may be thinking of the old JPARC that looked like below. Most materials from the old JPARC have been incorporated into this new portal.
the old JPARC home page
The old, 1999-2006, JPARC site home page. www.glopac.org/Jparc

 

Go to GloPACGo to GloPAD (database)