This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners during the full Meiji period.
This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners during the full Meiji period.
Samuel L. Leiter, distinguished professor (emeritus) of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, has published thirty books on Japanese theatre, the great stage directors, New York theatre history, and Shakespeare.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Part I: Overview Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Brief Survey of Meiji Kabuki Part II: The 1860s Chapter 3: From Japan through American Eyes (1859; 1860), by Francis Hall Chapter 4: From Ten Weeks in Japan: "Japanese Drama" (1860), by Rev. George Smith Chapter 5: From Japan through American Eyes (1861; 1862), by Francis Hall Chapter 6: From the Capital of the Tycoon: "Osaca" (1862), by Si Rutherford Alcock Chapter 7: From A Lady's Visit to Manila and Japan (1862) by Anna D'Almeida Chapter 8: "Japanese Theaters" (1864), by Humbert Aimé Chapter 9: From A Diplomat in Japan (1866?), by Sir Ernest Satow Chapter 10: More from the 1860s, by Jacob Mortimer Silver, R. Mountenney Jephson, and Edward Pennell Elmhirst Part III: 1870s Chapter 11: From Japanese Episodes: "A Day in a Japanese Theatre" (1872), by Edward H. House Chapter 12: From Clara's Diary: "Kabuki-the Japanese Theater" (1876), by Clara A.N. Whitney Chapter 13: From Japan Day by Day: "The Theatre" (18
List of Figures Acknowledgments Part I: Overview Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Brief Survey of Meiji Kabuki Part II: The 1860s Chapter 3: From Japan through American Eyes (1859; 1860), by Francis Hall Chapter 4: From Ten Weeks in Japan: "Japanese Drama" (1860), by Rev. George Smith Chapter 5: From Japan through American Eyes (1861; 1862), by Francis Hall Chapter 6: From the Capital of the Tycoon: "Osaca" (1862), by Si Rutherford Alcock Chapter 7: From A Lady's Visit to Manila and Japan (1862) by Anna D'Almeida Chapter 8: "Japanese Theaters" (1864), by Humbert Aimé Chapter 9: From A Diplomat in Japan (1866?), by Sir Ernest Satow Chapter 10: More from the 1860s, by Jacob Mortimer Silver, R. Mountenney Jephson, and Edward Pennell Elmhirst Part III: 1870s Chapter 11: From Japanese Episodes: "A Day in a Japanese Theatre" (1872), by Edward H. House Chapter 12: From Clara's Diary: "Kabuki-the Japanese Theater" (1876), by Clara A.N. Whitney Chapter 13: From Japan Day by Day: "The Theatre" (18
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