Product Description: According to a myth constructed after Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. Drawing extensively from Japanese sources, Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan's Fifteen-Year Sacred War...read more

Product Description: Mayama Seika wrote plays for all four of the major theatre genres in modern Japan over a period of 30 years. His life in that theatre and his work for it afford us a unique view of the panorama of theatrical development in Japan since the early years of this century...read more