Book Description
Kabuki has been a part of Japanese culture for nearly four centuries. This revision of the 1979 Kabuki Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference source on Japan's kabuki theatre in any language other than Japanese. The present volume, a massive updating and expansion of the original, includes many new illustrations, a lengthy and detailed index, thorough cross-referencing, greatly expanded descriptions of plays, an extensive bibliography of English-language and Japanese sources, and more than 400 new entries. A major feature is the inclusion of Japanese characters for all main entry terms, titles, and names. The entries are arranged alphabetically, and the volume's appendices include a chronological table of kabuki history, a list of all major or formal play titles, a list of all variant or popular titles, genealogical charts, and a list of all major actors' stage nicknames (yago) currently in use.
About the author
SAMUEL L. LEITER, Professor of Theatre at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, has been editor of Asian Theatre Journal since 1992.
