JPARC Home Page
JPARC is an online resource center for research on and the study of the performing arts of Japan. The site includes sections for the analysis of certain topics (Research Modules), multimedia articles (Learning Modules), and reference materials such as glossaries, bibliographies, browsing indexes, and timelines. Modules are collections of Web pages devoted to a specific topic such as important threatical figures or readings and productions of a single piece.For a tour see the video Welcome to JPARC!
Currently Updated Sections
| Research Modules | Learning Modules | Reference Materials | ||
| Prints - Kabuki Playbills 歌舞伎・浄瑠璃 番付 | Intro to Bunraku 文楽入門 | Bibliography of Translations | ||
| Noh as Performance 能とその演出 | Public Noh in 19th Century 勧進能 | Glossary of Terms | ||
| Playwrights - Zeami 世阿弥 | Japanese Theatre in Russia | Browse Index of Pieces | ||
| Bangai Noh Plays 番外謡曲 | Browse Index of Performers |
All sections 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.
All sections on JPARC can be reached using the menu on the sidebar to the left.
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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, 1999-2006, JPARC site home page. www.glopac.org/Jparc