Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Contributors
- Contributors’ biographies
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Japanese terms
- List of abbreviations
- Timeline
- Editor's introduction
- I Traditional theatres
- Preface to Part I Japanese civilization arises
- II Modern theatres
- Preface to Part II
- 6 Birth of modern theatre: shimpa and shingeki
- Interlude Modern comedies and early musicals
- Interlude Takarazuka: all-girls’ revue and musicals
- 7 Rise of shingeki: Western-style theatre
- Interlude Manzai and Yoshimoto vaudeville comedy
- 8 Wartime colonial and traditional theatre
- Interlude Kami-shibai: picture-card storytelling
- 9 Maturing shingeki theatre
- Interlude Postwar musicals and commercial theatre
- 10 Sixties Theatre
- Interlude Butoh: dance of darkness and light
- 11 Contemporary theatre
- Interlude Tokyo: world theatre capital
- Interlude Charting Tokyo theatre today: 24 November 2012
- Interlude Modern theatre tomorrow: interview with Oriza Hirata
- III Arcs and patterns
- IV Theatre architecture
- Preface to Part IV Evolution of Japanese theatre architecture
- V Theatre criticism
- VI Intercultural influences
- Epilogue: Frozen words and mythology
- Further reading
- Index
- References
Interlude Charting Tokyo theatre today: 24 November 2012
from Preface to Part II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Contributors
- Contributors’ biographies
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Japanese terms
- List of abbreviations
- Timeline
- Editor's introduction
- I Traditional theatres
- Preface to Part I Japanese civilization arises
- II Modern theatres
- Preface to Part II
- 6 Birth of modern theatre: shimpa and shingeki
- Interlude Modern comedies and early musicals
- Interlude Takarazuka: all-girls’ revue and musicals
- 7 Rise of shingeki: Western-style theatre
- Interlude Manzai and Yoshimoto vaudeville comedy
- 8 Wartime colonial and traditional theatre
- Interlude Kami-shibai: picture-card storytelling
- 9 Maturing shingeki theatre
- Interlude Postwar musicals and commercial theatre
- 10 Sixties Theatre
- Interlude Butoh: dance of darkness and light
- 11 Contemporary theatre
- Interlude Tokyo: world theatre capital
- Interlude Charting Tokyo theatre today: 24 November 2012
- Interlude Modern theatre tomorrow: interview with Oriza Hirata
- III Arcs and patterns
- IV Theatre architecture
- Preface to Part IV Evolution of Japanese theatre architecture
- V Theatre criticism
- VI Intercultural influences
- Epilogue: Frozen words and mythology
- Further reading
- Index
- References
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- A History of Japanese Theatre , pp. 354 - 357Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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