Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Flight of a Sparrow Part I Tokiko’s World 1. A Nest and a Nexus 2. Circles and Circumstances Part II The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko 3. Glimpses of History (The Script) 4. From Script to Stage 5. Caged Bird 6. The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko 7. Transitions Part III Memory, Manipulation, and Amnesia 8. Rescuing The Past from the Present 9. The Many Reincarnations of Kurosawa Tokiko 10. Circles Redrawn: The View from 1930s Mito 11. Encores: New Scripts Conclusion The Doing That Matters Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author