Dr. Alan Cummings is Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London. His research interests include kabuki dramaturgy and post-war performance. Recent publications include Haiku: Love (British Museum Press, 2013), and “Money is all that matters in the world” in Jones & Watanabe (eds.), A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis 1850-1920 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017).