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Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda
The building is a stage set for a cultural argument. Japan in 1928 built an Elizabethan theatre to house a Shakespeare translation as a statement of civilizational equivalence.
Built 1928 on the Waseda campus as a replica of the Fortune Theatre in Elizabethan London. It commemorates Tsubouchi Shoyo's first complete Japanese Shakespeare translation — and the entire Meiji project of
— Hana, The Historian
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