Innehåller bibliografiska referenser (s.[486]-500)

Understatements about this string-ball of idle thoughts -- Black hair -- "The mask is most important always" : the Noh performances of Umewaka Rokuro -- Schematics : roles, rules, props -- Malignance and charm : a catalogue of female maks -- A branch of flowers : steps to ineffability -- The dragons of Kasuga : texts, places, histories, masks -- Sunshine at midnight : an interview with Mr. Mikata Shizuka -- Perfect faces : maiden, mask, geisha, wife, princess -- Aya Kudo and the zo-onna : a porn model compared with a Noh goddess -- Her golden lips slightly parted : an image of Kannon -- Crossing the abyss : the three beings of three women -- What is grace? A list and a possible hermeneutic -- Rainbow skirts : the loveliness of Lady Yang -- Jewels in the darkness : the dances of Kofumi-san and Konomi-san -- "She cannot do anything else" : compulsions, costs, achievements -- Suzuka's dressing room : a geisha gets ready -- "They just want to look in the mirror" : Yukiko makes me over -- "I sit with my legs closed" : glimpses of onnagatas -- "There's no ugly lady face" : Katy transforms -- The phallus of Tiresias : what is a woman? -- White arms -- A curtain of mist : understatement and concealment -- In the forest : an apology -- Sun-bright like swords : the beauty of valkyries -- Passing light : Andrew Wyeth's Helga pictures -- Who is the willow tree goddess? Snatches of a play -- Beauty's ghost -- Snow in a silver bowl : an epitaph for Radha's grace -- Beauty's ghost : Ono no Komachi in traditional Noh plays -- Urashima's box : a few thoughts about time -- The decay of the angel : Komachi in the Noh plays of Mishima Yukio -- The moon maiden goes home -- Sunshine on Silla : the unknown -- Pine tree constancy : "Takasago," "Izutsu" and "Matsukaze" -- Kagekiyo's daughter : "Semimaru" and the plays of separation -- Behind the rainbow curtain : going home beneath the skin -- Appendix A : Descriptions of feminine beauty in The pillow book of Sei Shonagon (ca. 1000-1010) -- Appendix B : Descriptions of feminine beauty in some Old Norse sources -- Appendix C : Descriptions of feminine beauty in Sappho and miscellaneous Greek lyric sources -- Appendix D: Proportions of feminine beauty in some classical and Western European sources -- Appendix E : Noh play groups, and plays mentioned.