Kabuki-Backstage, Onstage: An Actor's Life Book by Matazo Nakamura (Hardcover) (Preowned)

"Matazo has written a book that fills a need, because nothing like it has been published before. The book affords a rare glimpse of the daily concerns connected with kabuki acting. It speaks of things such as the drawback of the iemoto system that other actors have not yet dared to describe to outsiders. He relates humorous episodes and inside stories that no one outside the kabuki dressing rooms has heard.
"For this book Matazo deserves as much applause as for the roles he has brought to life on the stage."
Karel van Wolferen
Author of The Enigma of Japanese Power