Book review
Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023), Reviews
Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)

Book review: M.W. Shores (2021). The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Submitted May 4, 2023
Published June 30, 2023
Jessica Milner Davis
University of Sydney
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2801-2743
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Keywords

Japanese comedy
rakugo
Osaka

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Davis, J. M. (2023). Book review: M.W. Shores (2021). The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The European Journal of Humour Research, 11(2), 178–180. Retrieved from https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/828
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References

Chafe, W. (2007). The importance of not being earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor. John Benjamins.

Katsura Sunshine. (2014, 20 January). Rakugo in English – Five minute excerpt [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY3Gb-aanyA

Shores, M.W. (2022). The makura of rakugo: Tradition and modernity. In J. Milner Davis (Ed), Humour in Asian cultures: Tradition and context (pp. 136-169). Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Wells, M. A. (2007). Satire and constraint in Japanese culture. In J. Milner Davis (Ed.), Understanding humor in Japan (pp.193-217). Wayne State University Press.

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