The Overseas Transmission and Reception of Japanese Performing Art in the Transitional Period of the 20th Century : Cultural Exchange centering on Yone Noguchi

在20世纪的过渡时期，日本表演艺术是如何传播到西方的，又是如何被西方接受的？我的研究目的是通过验证围绕野口勇这个人的文化交流和人文网络的事实证据来阐明这一时期。日本对日本表演艺术的兴趣源于西方知识分子，他们产生了对象征主义、神秘主义、东方主义的尊重，并推动了现代主义艺术运动，这与希腊、古典主义、回归传统运动有着千丝万缕的联系。通过对日本和英语文化圈之间的知识关系和文化人际网络的考察，解读了现代表演艺术互动的现状，试图为20世纪的跨文化史开辟一个参照系。

How did Japanese Performing Arts transmit to the West and how were they accepted there in the transitional period of the 20^<th> century? The aim of my research was to illuminate this period by validating the factual evidence of cultural exchange and humanistic network around the person of Yone Noguchi. Japan's interest in Japanese Performing Art found inspiration in the Western intellectuals who generated a respect for Symbolism, Mysticism, Orientalism, and then geared up the artistic movement of Modernism, which was inextricably linked with Greek, Classicism, the movement of returning to tradition. Through the investigation of the intellectual relationship and cultural human networks between the Japanese and English-speaking-spheres, I interpreted the status quo of the mutual interaction of the modern performing arts and tried to carve out a frame of reference for a cross-cultural history of the 20^<th> century.