Foreword

Eiji Sekine

Japan: the Presentational Urge

Donald Richie

Japanese Classical Drama as Viable English playscript

Andrew Tsubaki

Critical perspectives on the Noh play Izutsu

Shelley Fenno Quinn

Commedia dell’arte and Kyōgen: two popular theatres on opposite sides of the Silk Road

Fabio Mangolini

Zeami’s Riken and Gadamer’s Spiel: A Comparative Analysis of the Bodily-Performative Subjectivity

Takeyoshi Nishiuchi

Signs of performance: Benten Kozō by Kawatake Mokuami

Harue Tsutsumi

High Metabolism: Manga circa Shōwa 50

Charles Quinn

Liquid Cinema: Topologies of Emulsion in Two Japanese films

Akira Mizuta Lippit

Santō Kyōden’s The Merchandise You All Know as Merchandise: Self-reflexive promotion across two media

Adam Kern

Kawatake Mokuami as lyricist

Roger Thomas

Tōno monogatari as Performance: Literary Representation of Tōno Legends by Yanagita Kunio

Kiyo Sakamoto

Festival Performance: What Light can it Shed on Literary Performance?

Elaine Gerbert

Report on Round table discussion: The teaching of Japanese theater and film.

James O’Brien, William Matheson, Marvin Marcus, Phyllis Lyons, and Sumie Jones