It revisits one of the visual arts' oldest and most traditional genre.
Yet Close has put a new spin on an old genre.
There are other names used to describe older Japanese genres of music.
There's further proof this week that old genres don't die, they just move to cable.
Again, the old genres do not disappear but become invigorated by the new technology - more of everything can be published now.
I was fortunate, as a child, to see an occasional lapse into the old genre on Broadway.
Another example concerns the discrepancy among "old" and "new" genres.
The more crucial difference comes in Eisler's attitude toward older genres.
I think it would be very difficult to find a new playwright prepared to take on such an old genre.
The oldest genre in this style is known as Bejtexhinji poetry.