Table of Contents -- Foreword -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I Tradition and Transformation -- 1 Ink Traces of the Dancing Calligraphers: Zen-Ei Sho in Japan Today -- 2 Taiko Today: Performing Soundscapes, Landscapes and Identities -- 3 Miki's 'Autumn Fantasy' (1980): International, Japanese or Asian? -- 4 Beyond the Court: A Challenge to the Gagaku Tradition in the'Reconstruction Project' of the National Theatre -- 5 Spring Day, Stone Age and the Search for an Essential Japan by Koike Hiroshi -- PART II Place and Identity -- 6 Shakespeare on Show in Japan: An Anthropological Analysis of Cultural Display -- 7 Twenty-First-Century Enjoyment Plaza: Private Space and Contemporary Art in Mori's World -- 8 Performing Identity in Yaeyama: The Case of the Sash -- 9 Recontextualizing Eisa: Transformations in Religious, Competition, Festival and Tourism Contexts -- PART III Popular Culture, Technology and Consumerism -- 10 Local Performance of Global Sound: More than the Musical in Japanese Hardcore Rock -- 11 When is Japanese, Japanese? A Tale of Two Musicians -- 12 Internalizing Digital Phenomena: The 'Performing' Body at the Intersection of Japanese Culture and Technology -- 13 Rising Sun, Setting Trends: Fashioning Britishness In, and For, Japan -- Index -- Plates.