The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan
- 270 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Rakugo (comic storytelling) has played a major role in Japanese culture and society, and yet has been largely overlooked in scholarship. This pioneering study of Kamigata rakugo - the 'other' rakugo tradition - is a corrective to works that view rakugo and other facets of Japan through a distorting Tokyo- centric lens.