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 THREE MODERN JAPANESE PLAYS

Translated by

Yozan T. Iwasaki and Glenn Hughes

"THESE short plays, while different one from the other, are the direct result of Western influences and are representative of the new drama movement in Japan, which is, not supplanting, but very decid- edly challenging the No, the Kabuki, and the Doli- play.

The Razor, (5m. tw.) a drama in one act, by Kickizo Nackamura, was first published in Japan in 1914. Within one year it had been performed seventy-one times in the principal cities of Japan and Manchuria. The Madman on the Roof, (5m. zw.) a play in one act, by Kan Kikuchi, was pub- lished in 1919, and in 1920 it was produced at the Imperial Theatre, Tokyo. Kikuchi is considered one of the most clever and versatile writers in Japan and is in great demand among Japanese readers. Nari-kin, (5m. zw.) a farce in one act and two scenes, by Yozan T. Iwasaki, was written in 1919 and has been produced many times. Mr. Iwasaki was born in Japan, received his education there and in the United States, and for several years has lived in Seattle, where among other activities he has di- rected the work of play production for Jiyu-geki-dan, a Japanese dramatic company devoted to the pres- entation in Japanese for Japanese audiences of the plays of such dramatists as Ibsen, Shaw, Tolstoi, Hauptmann, Strindberg, and the newer dramatists of Japan,

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