List of Illustrations

	Marunouchi, October 1949 12
	The accused sit in the dock at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, 3 May 1946 15
	War Crimes Trial in a Singapore court-room, August 1946 18
	War Crimes Trial in Rangoon City Hall, 22 March 1946 19
	Picture-card show (kamishibai), Komatsugawa, Tokyo, 1956 33
	From The Fighting Record of the Invisible Organizers, by Shirato Sanpei 35
	From Sanpei the Kappa, Vol. 4, by Mizuki Shigeru 39
	From The Master of Gensenkan by Tsuge Yoshiharu 41
	From Earthward bound…by Takemiya Keiko 42
	From Gaki Deka, Vol. 2, by Yamagami Tatsuhiko 44
	Manzai performers in the Sensh Scroll, Poetry Contest of the Thirty-two Artisans 51
	Mikawa manzai in the closing years of the Edo Period 52
	Vaudeville scene in the late Edo Period 53
	Vaudeville scene in the early Meiji Period 54
	Manzai team Hanabishi Achako and Yokoyama Entatsu 56
	Miyako Chch and Nanto Yji 58
	tori Keisuke and Ky Utako 59
	The Manzai performance by the Two Beats (Ts Biito): Biito Takeshi and Biito Kiyoshi 61
	The NHK Song Contest of 1953 65
	Photomontage by Kimura Tsunehisa 65
	NHK End of Year Song Contest, 1982 66
	NHK Great River Drama Ak Rshi 68
	From Niji (The Rainbow) (1970) 71
	From Ai yori aoku (Bluer than Indigo) (1972) 72
	From Hatoko no Umi (Hatoko’s Sea) (1974) 72
	From Kumo no Jtan (Carpet of Clouds) (1976) 73
	From Kazamidori (Weathercock) (1977) 73
	Chch (The Butterfly) 80
	Tokoton yare-bushi (Miyasan) 81
	Stanislavsky as Nanki Poo and Stekel as Yum Yum in The Mikado, l887 82
	Ichimura Uzaemon XV playing Sukeroku 84
	Takamiyama 85
	Pink Lady 86
	‘Sergeant Pepper’ 87
	‘Spring Number One’ 88
	The Candies 89
	Lullaby from the Chgoku region, arranged by Yamada Ksaku 90
	‘Hietsukibushi’ 91
	Hymn based on ‘Imay’ melody 92
	‘Zsan’ 93
	‘The Gondola Song’ 94
	Shimura Takashi singing ‘The Gondola Song’ in the Kurosawa film Ikiru 95
	‘Song of the Seaside’ 96
	‘The Red Dragonfly’ 96
	‘If you go to the sea…’ 97
	‘A town where the snow is falling’ 98
	‘The drunk who has come back home’ 99
	‘The sky of my home village’ 100
	‘The glow of fireflies’ 101
	‘Elegy of Seven-Mile Beach’ 102
	Beheiren ‘French Demonstration’ fills Yaesudori Avenue, 23 June 1970 110
	From Sazaesan, Vol. 46, by Hasegawa Machiko 113
	Two types of Japanese breakfast 118
	High-rise housing estates, Takashimadaira, Tokyo, 1973 121
	Illustrations from a guidebook to Japan 127
	An image of the Japanese as portrayed by the Malaysian cartoonist Lat 128