Japanese impacts asserted itself in the Czech theatre even before the First World War. The first domestic activities are associated with the expressionist director F. Zavřel, with his English productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado, whose plot is situated in Japan. Even before that (in 1902) the Neues Deutsches Theatre in Prague hosted set of Japan´s „new wave theatre“. Its presentation of the shinpa performance at the end of the nineties of the 19th century pushed the traditional kabuki theatre to the „old wave theatre“ - kyūha. The star of the group was a leading Japanese actress Kawakami Sada Yakko (1871-1946). One of the most important representative of the Czech interwar avant-garde theatre, Jiří Frejka, produced the play Asagao by Kakashi Yamada in the Modern studio in 1929. This title became part of the meagre „golden treasure“ of the Czech puppet dramaturgy after the war. The indisputable highlight of the possibilities of our acquaintance with authentic Japanese theatre was the first performace of the imperial company gagaku (music) and bugaku (dance) outside Japan, which took place in the Spanish Hall of the Prague Castle on 30th June 1998. It was an official expression of the Japanese emperor´s respect to Vaclav Havel. and Jaromír Kazda, Petr Pavlovský.