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Michael Rukin, a member of the company's advisory board, said he "only heard about the wonderful sets" created by world-renowned designer Setsu Asakura. He said he expected the sets to establish a "wonderful world of fantasy which captures the children...
...staff chose this play because "it's beautiful, for one thing," Melvin said. The play is a fable with puppets and exotic characters. One of Japan's premiere designers, Setsu Asakura, created the set, costumes and puppets used in the play, she said...
...doll. Today, with a raging boom on his hands, he says: "The whole thing is crazy." But Japanese intellectuals, who can be pretty crazy themselves, have been quick to discover social significance in the dakkochan's black skin. Citing the growing popularity of Negro jazz. Artist Setsu Nagasawa argues that "a Negro culture wave seems to be sweeping Japanese youth." Novelist Tensei Kawano, who has featured Negroes in four books, asserts: "We of the younger generation are outcasts from politics and society. In a way we are like Negroes, who have a long record of oppression and misunderstanding...
...Emperor had chosen "Meiji setsu" -birthday of the Emperor Meiji, who made Japan a modern power and Shinto a war-inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
...Europe on his boat. Chika's villainous father wanted to sell her to Grier, and she would not really have minded, but since Grier did not fall in with the idea she let her father put her in a brothel. Grier soon forgot her when he met O Setsu San. the lovely interpreter at an inn called The House of the Playful Kitten. Then an earthquake unexpectedly advanced his suit with his first love, O Kaya San. Soon they were living together. When Grier went back to England, because it was "necessary." he was better able to judge...