Comic Storytelling of Western Japan - Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo

This multidisciplinary study of Japan's storytelling tradition of Kamigata rakugo comes with five stories translated.

List of contents

Author's Preface: COVID-19 and Tenugui Face Masks; Introduction; Part I. 1. Kamigata, Osaka; 2. The History of Kamigata Rakugo; 3. What Constitutes a Kamigata Rakugo Story?; 4. Geidan: An Interview with Hayashiya Somemaru IV (1949-); 5. Conclusion; Part II. 6. Five Kamigata Rakugo Classics.

About the author

M. W. Shores is a Lecturer of Japanese at The University of Sydney, and has been a Fellow of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge. Shores has spent over a decade in Japan for research and apprenticeships with two of Kamigata rakugo's respected practitioners, Katsura Bunshi V and Hayashiya Somemaru IV.

Product details

• Authors: M W Shores, M. W. Shores, M. W. (University of Sydney) Shores
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781108926676
• ISBN: 978-1-108-92667-6
• No. of pages: 279
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights