Offers an authoritative guide to Kabuki. The book explains everything lucidly and painstakingly - the background, the facts, the emotions, both from a Japanese and a Western point of view. If you can keep paying attention you will find at the end that you seem to have been living in Japan.
'This book explains everything lucidly and painstakingly- the background, the facts, the emotions, both from a Japanese and a Western point of view. If you can keep paying attention you will find at the end that you seem to have been living in Japan for quite a while.' --Edwin Denby, 'Art News'
