Part I: Overview. Introduction ; A Brief Survey of Meiji Kabuki -- Part II: The 1860s. From Japan through American Eyes (1859; 1860), by Francis Hall ; From Ten Weeks in Japan: "Japanese Drama" (1860), by George Smith ; From Japan through American Eyes (1861; 1862), by Francis Hall ; From the Capital of the Tycoon: "Osaca" (1861), by Rutherford Alcock ; From A Lady's Visit to Manila and Japan (1862) by Anna D'Almeida ; "Japanese Theaters" (1864?), by Aimé Humbert ; From A Diplomat in Japan (1866?), by Ernest Satow ; More from the 1860s, by Jacob Mortimer Silver, R. Mountenney Jephson, and Edward Pennell Elmhirst -- Part III: 1870s. From Japanese Episodes (1872): "A Day in a Japanese Theatre" by Edward H. House ; From Clara's Diary (1876): "Kabuki -- the Japanese Theater" by Clara A.N. Whitney ; From Japan Day by Day (1877, 1878): "The Theatre" by Edward S. Morse ; From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1878): "Theatricals" by Isabella L. Bird ; From Clara's Diary: Part I (1878): "Chūshingura" by Clara A.N. Whitney ; From Awakening Japan (1878; 1879), by Erwin Baelz ; From Clara's Diary (1879): "Entertaining General Grant"; "A Western Style Drama", by Clara A.N. Whitney ; More from the 1870s, by William Elliot Griffis, Christopher Dresser, Arthur Collins Maclay, William Gray Dixon, Charles H. Eden, and Mrs. Julia D. Carrothers. Part IV: The 1880s. From Japan Day by Day (1882): "The Theatre" by Edward S. Morse ; From Jinrikisha Days in Japan (1889): "Japanese Theatre" by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore ; From A Japanese Interior (1889), by Alice Mabel Bacon ; More from the 1880s, by Thomas W. Knox, Arthur H. Crow, Andrew Carnegie, William Henry Lucy, Henry Knollys, Henry Fauld -- Part V: The 1890s. From A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan (1890): "Danjuro, a Great Actor" by Mary Crawford Fraser ; From Lotos-Time in Japan (1894), by Henry T. Finck ; From The Japs at Home (1892), by Douglas Sladen ; From Japan: A Record in Colour (1896): "Art and the Drama," by Mortimer Menpes ; "Japan's Stage and Greatest Actor" (1896), by Robert P. Porter ; From Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1898): "Popular Plays"; "Afternoon Calls," by Osman Edwards ; More from the 1890s, by Adolfo Farsari, M.B. Cook, G.J. Younghusband, Mae St. John Bramhall, Katherine Schuyler Baxter, William Eleroy Curtis, S.C.F. Jackson, and Stafford Ransome. Part VI: The 1900s. From Tales from Tokio (1900?): "Shibaya to Yakusha" by Clarence Ludlow Brownell ; From Smiling 'Round the World (1902): "Visit to a Japanese Theatre, Tokyo" by Marshall P. Wilder ; From Awakening Japan (1903), by Erwin Baelz ; From Present-Day Japan (1904): "The Drama" by Augusta M. Campbell Davidson ; From Things Japanese (1904): "Theatre" by Basil Hall Chamberlain ; From Rare Days in Japan (1906): "At the Theatre" by George Trumbull Ladd ; From Every-Day Japan (1909): "The Japanese Stage" by Arthur Lloyd ; From Japan and the Japanese (1910), by Walter Tyndale ; From The Full Recognition of Japan (1911): "The Drama" by Robert P. Porter ; From Japan of the Japanese (1912): "The Theatre" by Joseph H. Longford ; More from the 1900s (and Beyond), by Anna C. Hartshorne, Walter Del Mar, Fred Gaisberg, Douglas Sladen, Ernest W. Clement, George H. Rittner, G. Waldo Browne, W. Petrie Watson, Eleanora Mary D'Anethan, Clive Holland, H.B. Montgomery, Evelyn Adam, Anonymous, and A.H. Exner.
Summary:
"This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan's kabuki theater 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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