Osman Edwards spent half a year in Japan studying its theatre, and here describes life behind the scenes, religious and popular plays, the actors and their art, geisha and cherry-blossom festivals and the songs of the streets, mixing essays with personal encounters such as an evening of koto music with a young woman and talk of love-matches.
A lively view of Meiji Japan’s stage and pleasures, coloured by the outsider’s eye of 1901. Download the free EPUB.