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Sada Yacco and Kawakami: Performers of Japonisme

1992; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/md.35.1.35

1712-5286

Yoko Chiba,

Asian Culture and Media Studies

The successful premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado on 14 March 1885 at the Savoy in London was symbolic of the cultural milieu at that time in two ways: it marked a culmination of Japonisme, the influence of Japanese art which had been sweeping over Western countries from the mid–186os onwards, and the beginning of a new trend in the theatre arts reflecting this phenomenon. The dramatic expression of Japonisme was an overwhelmingly comical one, satirizing and travestying the "Japan craze." The Mikado set its tone.