I would venture a guess that the colleague who reported "Mark Twain had seen a Noh performance in Kyoto" may have seen a reference that confused Twain's association with Edward House and House's adopted daughter Koto. A new biography on House titled _A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House_ by James Huffman was recently released which according to the publisher: "...details a deep friendship with Mark Twain, which eventually was destroyed by a dispute over The Prince and the Pauper. Twain's unpublished 50-page manuscript on the experience, _Concerning the Scoundrel E. H. House_, is introduced here for the first time." Publisher's web site for the book is: http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742526216 Barb