Maple Club
Maple Club（1893）The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan, Batsford, London [EN]
- 17In the present day, the Sarugaku and Kiogen dancers, like the Bugaku dancers, have their home in Tokyo ; their theatre adjoins the “Maple Club ” – Koyo-kwan – in Shiba Park, where they give frequent performances.
- 39THE traveller who witnesses a ” Nо̄ Dance,” hastily improvised for his amusement at the Maple Club of Tokyo, or who chances upon a pantomimic duologue in grotesque costume, rendered on a rough platform to divert the crowd before a temple at the matsuri half fair, half festival can really form no idea of the exquisite little dramas which for more than five centuries have been performed privately in the houses of Japanese nobles and are still enacted at rare intervals to an invited audience.
- 22-23The dances of the ” Maple Club ” at Tokio in the present day are a modem development of the Nо̄.
- 23As all foreign visitors to Japan see the ” Maple Club ” dances, it is necessary to explain that they do not number among the dances of ancient Japan, but are entirely of modern growth and development.