Meiji Kabuki: Japanese Theatre through Foreign Eyes

by Samuel L. Leiter

Book Overview

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title 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-resident or transient-during the Meiji period (1868-1912), well before the first substantial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666926787
• ISBN13: 9781666926781
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"