Kawakami Otojirō

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Kawakami Otojirō

Japanese dramatist

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Japanese performing arts
Meiji period
…arranged and acted in by Kawakami Otojirō. Kawakami’s first plays were political and nationalistic in intent. After he and his wife Sada Yakko had performed in Europe and America (1899 and 1902), they introduced to Japan adaptations of Shakespeare, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Victorien Sardou. These shimpa, or “new school,” plays,…
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…arranged and acted in by Kawakami Otojirō. Kawakami’s first plays were political and nationalistic in intent. After he and his wife Sada Yakko had performed in Europe and America (1899 and 1902), they introduced to Japan adaptations of Shakespeare, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Victorien Sardou. These shimpa, or “new school,” plays,…
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