The cuckoo is a special being in Japanese mythology. Harbinger of Death and messenger of the fates, it exists on two planes : the real and surreal.

These are excerpts from the original, unrevised manuscripts of
the Tales of the Kabukicuckoo.
Molded in the oldest of patterns - the journey of discovery,
the initiation - these tales were originally bedtime stories
told to my two sons.
Much time has passed between the telling, the writing, and
the appearance of these fragments on this site. Obviously,
though I've made an attempt to retain the oral/aural qualities
of the original stories, the plots have altered somewhat in the
transition...

The Tales owe their existence to the characters with whom I
spent the two years of my abandoned masteral studies: sharing
household, lives and change. You know who you are, all of you:
wherever,whatever you may be.
To all of you: THANK YOU for the good times.