The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection, 1964-2003.

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The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection, 1964-2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502493850

This collection contains slides, photographs with corresponding contact sheets and negatives, audio and video materials, performance-related printed materials, realia objects and personal papers. Visual, audio, video and printed materials, and realia objects are described at the item level with play titles, production dates, and performer names and other descriptors, if applicable. Personal papers are described at the folder level. 178 plays, 290 productions, and 183 performers of the National Bunraku Troupe are cited in this collection. Visual and printed materials for fifteen Living National Treasures of Japan in Bunraku are also included in this collection.

57 linear feet of paper materials, 13,571 slides, 7,571 photographic items including negatives, 71 audio and video materials (with 139 preservation master copies and 139 CDs of the same materials), 89 realia objects.

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jpn,

Columbia University in the City of New York, East Asian Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7623319

Columbia University in the City of New York, East Asian Library

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