The Journal of Asian Studies

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Book Reviews—Japan

The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture. By Mari Boyd. Tokyo: Sophia University Press, 2006. xii, 293 pp. ¥3,086 (cloth).

Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960–2000. By Peter Eckersall. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xix, 240 pp. $125.00 (cloth).

Steven Clark Ridgelya1

a1 University of Wisconsin–Madison