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# Speaking of the fashion for foreign cultural phenomena in Japan, one cannot fail to recall the quite peculiar feeling the Japanese have for Leo Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection"
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- Published: 2023-04-10T11:37:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:36:47.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: The East, Cinema, Books, Mores, Pop Culture

The Japanese writer Shimamura Hogetsu staged "Resurrection" at the Art Theatre in Tokyo in 1914\. In the same year a short film, "Katyusha", was made.

The popularity of the production may be judged from the fact that soon afterwards the song "Katyusha no Uta" (Katyusha, dear one, how sad it is to part…) was being sung all over the country. The recording sold tens of thousands of copies and is regarded today as the first example of a Japanese pop hit.

The image of Katyusha Maslova captured the hearts of the Japanese; on the stage she was played by Matsui Sumako (1886-1919). Everyone talked of Katyusha, from the plainest labourer to the most refined representative of high society.

Several women's hairstyles associated by Japanese women with Katyusha's image came into fashion at once: a straight parting, which came to be called the Katyusha, and the ribbons in the hair that the actress Matsui-san wore on stage, which likewise became popular and were likewise called the Katyusha. Hairpins and combs were given Katyusha's name. To this day the word "katyusha" in Japan denotes any hairband or hair ribbon.

The song about Katyusha is still known to connoisseurs of folk culture, and it even has its own Katyusha Song Day, observed on 26 March.