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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Book review

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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.

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