Stage Association - Butaikyokai

Japanese: 舞台協会 - ぶたいきょうかい

Founded in London in 1899, this was a new Japanese theatre company of the Taisho period, named after the Stage Society, which was a driving force behind the modern British theatre movement. It was established in 1913 (Taisho 2) immediately after the dissolution of the Bungei Kyokai (Literary Association), by young members of the same company (Kato Seiichi, Sasaki Tsumuri, Yamada Takaya, Yoshida Kozaburo and others), and held its first performance at the Imperial Theatre on November 28 of the same year, featuring GB Shaw's The Devil's Disciple and other plays. Komiya Toyotaka (1884-1966), a critic and German literature scholar who was a student of Natsume Soseki, was in charge of the literary side.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1899年ロンドンに創立され，イギリスの近代劇運動を担った〈ステージ･ソサエティStage Society〉の訳語を冠した日本の大正期の新劇団。1913年(大正2)文芸協会解散直後，同劇団の若手(加藤精一，佐々木積，山田隆弥（たかや），吉田幸三郎ら)が設立し，G.B.ショーの《悪魔の弟子》ほかで同年11月28日に帝国劇場で第1回公演をもった。夏目漱石門下の評論家･ドイツ文学者小宮豊隆(1884‐1966)が文芸面を担当していた。

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