"Perils of a Purloined Pearl"
    by Samuel Leiter     In 1960, the six-volume Engeki Hyakka Daijiten, still Japan's most comprehensive theatre encyclopedia, noted that there were at least seven dramatizations (there actually are more), in different genres (including noh, kabuki, and bunraku), of the Japanese legend about a diving girl, a Sea Dragon, and a precious pearl. […]