Okamoto Kidō On The Kabuki Theatre Of The Meiji Period – Part One

First in a four-part series by kabuki collector Trevor Skingle!

Published as a series in 1935 and then in full as “Meiji Gekidan Ranpu no Moto ni te” (On the Theatre of the Meiji Period – Under the Lamp) by Iwanami Shoten in 1993. These extracts are from the serialisation which appeared in the late 1920s early 1930s in the Tokyo Kabukiza Monthly Kabuki Review magazine as

Poetry Reading: “The Undying Day” By Hans Brinckmann – Translations By Hiromi Mizoguchi

Tuesday, 14 February 2012 2:00 – 4:00pm Admission free, book here

Daiwa Foundation Japan House 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle London NW1 4QP Nearest Station: Baker Street Map

Hans Brinckmann, author of The Undying Day: Poems by Hans Brinckmann, will be reading a selection of his poems followed by translations by Hiromi Mizoguchi. After the reading, there will be a discussion on the writing and translation of poetry.

Brinckmann’s book The Undying Day: Poems by Hans Brinckmann, contains