The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan

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The Man Who Saved Kabuki Faubion Bowers, ca. 1945. (Photograph courtesy of Faubion Bowers.) The Man Who Saved Kabuki By Shiro Okamoto Translated and Adapted By Samuel L. Leiter University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu © 2001 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 06 05 04 03 02 01 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Okamoto, Shiro. [Kabuki o sukutta otoko. English] The man who saved Kabuki : Faubion Bowers and theatre censorship in occupied Japan / Shiro Okamoto ; translated and adapted by Samuel L. Leiter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–8248–2382–6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0–8248–2441–5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Bowers, Faubion, 1917– 2. Bowers, Faubion, 1917—Views on kabuki. 3. United States. Army—Officers—Biography. 4. Japan—History— Allied occupation, 1945–1952. 5. Kabuki. I. Title. DS890.B68 O3313 2001 952.04'092—dc21 00–066591 University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources. Designed by Janette Thompson (Jansom) Printed by The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group ...