Redefining the Japanese Identity through Art of Resistance: Butoh’s Deviation from Tradition in the Postwar Era

This graphic novel is a project completed for the Reischauer Scholars Program, an online course for high school students sponsored by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). Here is the link to the RSP website.

My research topic was Butoh, a Japanese dance theatre originating from the wake of WWII in 20th century Japan. I hoped to explore arts of resistance, or any arts born from a population’s opposition to oppression.

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