Kabuki Dancer

Sawako Ariyoshi

Original title: Izumo no Okuni

Translated by James R. Brandon earliest edition we have, 1972 Kodansha International (JPN), 2001 paperback 352 pages

To be kabuki in Japan once meant to be outrageous, daring, flaunting convention. It was in sixteenth-century Japan, as Shakespeare was writing his masterworks half a world away, that the spirit of Kabuki theater was born out of a single woman's passions and dedication to her art. In Kabuki Dancer, the popular Japanese novelist Sawako Ariyoshi (The Doctor's Wife, The River Ki, The Twilight Years) retells the story of...

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James R. Brandon 2 printings we hold · 1994–2001 · Kodansha International (JPN)

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Kabuki Dancer paperback · 2001 · Kodansha International (JPN) · 352 pages · 9784770027351
Kabuki Dancer hardcover · 1994 · Kodansha International (JPN) · 288 pages

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