The Mousmé; or The Maids of Japan, performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on 9 September 1911.

Scenes from The Mousmé; or The Maids of Japan, performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on 9 September 1911.

The Mousmé; or The Maids of Japan is an Edwardian musical comedy in three acts with a book by Alexander M. Thompson and Robert Courtneidge, lyrics by Arthur Wimperis and Percy Greenbank and music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, premiered in 1911 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. The musical was next staged in Tokyo (at the Tokyo Imperial Theater), and in Yokohama and Osaka, Japan, in 1912.

 The Mouseme at the Shaftesbury Theatre

Miyo Ko San (Miss Cicely Courtneidge) enters the Teahouse of Sweet Content an sings "Inquisitive Gentlemen"

Miss Cicely Courtneige as Miyo Ko San in Geisha dress, and Miss Florence Smithson as O Hana San

A quartette of Geisha in the Teahouse of Sweet Content in Tokyo. — Reading from left to right are Misses Gladys Miles, May Etheridge, Sheila Hayes, and Violet Morene.

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