Child Kabuki actors go through a difficult transitional ... In some scenes, ropes are used so actors “fly” above the spectators. Although Japan has been known for discriminatory attitudes ...

Her father is a legendary Kabuki actor who has been designated a living national treasure by the Japanese government. Her younger brother is also a Kabuki performer. Terajima herself is a world ...

On stage, Danjuro Ichikawa, one of the biggest stars of Japan’s Kabuki theatre, is a virtuoso in switching roles. In his latest production, he plays 13 parts, including a princess, a sushi chef ...

Kabuki has a 400-year history. Kabuki actor Nakamura Kazutaro is carrying on the tradition and he has achieved great success in Spain blending Kabuki and Flamenco. What is the future he envisions?

In the Hawaiian Islands, where many Japanese people had immigrated since the Meiji Era (1868-1912), a unique, localized form of Kabuki has been developing for more than a century. Hawaiian Kabuki ...

Is it just coincidence that kabuki’s onnagata (male actors specializing in female ... Perhaps something in Japanese culture or the national character is drawn to performances like these, which ...

This is a photograph of the popular Meiji actor ... period when Japan was becoming rapidly militarised and would have been one of first of the last of that decades visits to the Kabuki by Westerners.

This Kabuki Review magazine was published at the beginning of the period of Japan's militarization in ... It also contains many photos of Kabuki actors of the day; Ichimura Uzaemon XV, Onoe ...

KOTOHIRA, Kagawa -- Japan's oldest existing playhouse built in the Edo period (1603-1867) in this town in the western part of the country still stages annual spring Kabuki shows. The bartizan with ...

A traditional theatrical form intended to be epic with spectacular stories sets makeup and costumes the invention of kabuki is attributed ... very popular in Japan In 2020 when live theatre ...