Description

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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.

About the Author

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Samuel L. Leiter is professor emeritus of theater at Brooklyn College, CUNY.