COSTUME
EN FACE
a primer of darkness
for young boys and girls
tatsumi hijikata
notebook written by moe yamamoto
and translated from the japanese by
sawako nakayasu
COSTUME EN FACE:
A PRIMER OF DARKNESS
FOR YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
COPYRIGHT SAWAKO NAKAYASU, 2015
COSTUME EN FACE (ORIGINAL NOTEBOOK)
COPYRIGHT MOE YAMAMOTO, 1976
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ISBN 978-1-937027-53-7
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COSTUME EN FACE
a primer of darkness
for young boys and girls
tatsumi hijikata
notebook written by moe yamamoto
and translated from the japanese by
sawako nakayasu
E M ER GEN CY PL AYSCRIPTS
U G LY D U CK LIN G PR ES SE
B R O O K LY N, N Y
後ろにねがえり
線
空間
体のこしたまま半分ねがえり
表情
ちじまるねむり
ねがえろうとして正面
芸者
水中
ひじでささえない
のびきらない
芸者はハっキリ、
正面すかす
視線の解体
かみの毛空間
３方向の重層
くもの巣
子供十二相
女なだれあめ
寝わざの踊り
暗い少年
柳の無化
柳空間
ねがえりうつ子供
髪の毛にからまれる女 炎の中の女
足カタン
もうろうとした女
視線解体
芸者
ほどける女
衣裳を腰にかけ立とうとする
口のカクカク
脳ミソ
ヨダレ
さく乱の小動物
武将
蛇・トド
子供の顔フクロウ
かみの毛
恐怖でぬり込められて横目チラリ
髪の毛つかってメンコの女形
メンコ口カクカク
振動より臭いの連続
小春１体
聖歌隊
髪の毛百鬼の低迷より
痛みの孔雀たっけい
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暗い幽霊
Turning backwards in sleep
Line
Half-turning in sleep, leaving body behind
Space
Shrinking in sleep
Expression
Trying to turn in sleep, en face
geisha
Dissection of the sightline
Multi-layered in 3 directions
Space of hair
Spider web
Set of 12 child movements
Female avalanche candy
Child turning in sleep
Woman tangled up in hair Woman in flames
Leg katan
Dancing lying down
Mournful young boy
Willow annihilation
Underwater
Do not support with elbow
Do not stretch out completely
Willow Space
Geisha
Woman in a hazy stupor
Woman coming undone
Dissection of the sightline
put costume around the waist and try to stand
Geisha is precise, thin out the front area
Kaku kaku in the mouth
Brain
Drool
Small animals of confusion
Snake — Sea lion
Mournful ghost
Hair
Commander
Child-faced owl
Face filled in and flattened by fear, quick sideways glance
Female role, using hair as menko
[ Body flattened like ] menko, mouth kaku kaku
Succession not of vibrations, but smell
Koharu
1 iteration
Choir
From the stagnation of the one hundred hair demons
Crucifixion of the peacock of pain
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