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KABUKI
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA • MADRAS MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO DALLAS • SAN FRANCISCO
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The character of Kamakura Gongoro, a warrior of Old Japan, as presented in Shibaraku! (lit., Wait-a-Moment). A famous actor improvisation, or aragoto play, one of the hereditary eighteen pieces of the Ichikawa Danjuro family. From a painting on silk by Torii Kiyotada, the present head of the Torii School.
KABUKI THE POPULAR STAGE OF JAPAN
BY ZOË KINCAID
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1925
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