A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance Book

	Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Kabuki History
1	The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki	3
2	Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama	16
3	Bakufu Versus Kabuki	33
4	Nakamura Shichisaburo I and the Creation of Edo-Style Wagoto	60
5	Episodes in the Career of the Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III, Including His Rivalry with Arashi Rikan I	76
6	Flowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and Its Patrons	88
7	Hiiki Renchu (Theatre Fan Clubs) In Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century	112
8	Kabuki Goes Official: The 1878 Opening of the Shintomi-za	123
9	Breaking the Kabuki Actors' Barriers: 1868-1900	152
10	Communist Kabuki: A Contradiction in Terms?	167
11	New (Neo) Kabuki and the Work of Hanagumi Shibai	186
Pt. 2	Kabuki Performance
12	From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters	211
13	Actor, Role, and Character: their Multiple Interrelationships in Kabuki	230
14	Kabuki: Signs, Symbols, and the Hieroglyphic Actor	238
15	The Tsurane of Shibaraku: Communicating the Power of Identity	253
16	Conjuring Kuzunoha from the World of Abe no Seimei	269
17	Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry: A Japanese Puppet Play and Its Metamorphosis to Kabuki	284
18	Kabuki and the Elizabethan Theatre	329
Pt. 3	Surveying the Field
19	Kabuki: Changes and Prospects: An International Symposium	343
20	Kabuki as National Culture: A Critical Survey of Japanese Kabuki Scholarship	359
	Selected Bibliography	391
	About the Editor and Contributors	399
	Index	405