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Lecture: Meiji Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Through Foreign Eyes (Dr. Samuel Leiter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNx0Lk3LTa8 Samuel Leiter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theater at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, speaks on his latest book, Meiji Kabuki: Japanese Theatre through Foreign Eyes. This publication is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theater in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters and reference…