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

Contents

v Contents Translator’s Introduction vii Author’s Introduction xv Chapter 1 Faubion Bowers and Japan, 1940–1945 1 Chapter 2 Wartime Kabuki: Censorship on the Home Front 17 Chapter 3 The Occupation Commences and the Actors Return 30 Chapter 4 Kabuki Censorship Begins: The “Terakoya” Incident 43 Chapter 5 How Faubion Bowers “Saved” Kabuki 66 Chapter 6 Kabuki’s Suffering Ends 103 Chapter 7 Conclusion 115 Epilogue Letter from Kawatake Shigetoshi to Faubion Bowers 129 Appendix A Kabuki Chronology, 1940–1948 131 Appendix B Kabuki Plot Summaries 155 Notes 181 Selected Bibliography 193 Index 197 ...