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Ghost stories (怪談) performed as theatrical entertainment, often during summer months. These supernatural tales became a popular form of storytelling performance during the Edo period and continue to influence modern Japanese theater and cinema. Kakegoe Traditional shouts or calls (掛け声) used in Japanese theater, especially kabuki ...
Traditional Japanese theatre is among the oldest theatre traditions in the world. Traditional theatre includes Noh, a spiritual drama, and its comic accompaniment kyōgen; kabuki, a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku, puppetry; and yose, a spoken drama. Modern Japanese theatre includes shingeki (experimental Western-style theatre ...
The form is a more specific and singular one than the generic term of "mass theatre" might imply. Furthermore, there are those within the sphere of taishū engeki who object to the plebeian denotation of the word taishū (the masses). Nevertheless, for lack of a better term, the moniker of taishū engeki continues to be widely used.
Glossary of Japanese theater; Kanteiryū, a lettering style invented to advertise kabuki and other theatrical performances; Kyōgen, a traditional form of Japanese comic theatre that influenced the development of kabuki; Oshiguma, an imprint of the face make-up of kabuki actors, as artwork and souvenir; Noh, a traditional form of Japanese theatre
Bunraku is an author's theater, as opposed to kabuki, which is a performer's theater. In bunraku, prior to the performance, the chanter holds up the text and bows before it, promising to follow it faithfully. In kabuki, actors insert puns on their names, ad-libs, references to contemporary happenings and other things which deviate from the script.
Shingeki (新劇, literally "new drama") was a leading form of theatre in Japan that was based on modern realism.Born in the early years of the 20th century, it sought to be similar to modern Western theatre, putting on the works of the ancient Greek classics, William Shakespeare, Molière, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekov, Tennessee Williams, and so forth.
[4] 歌舞伎, a traditional form of Japanese theatre; also any form of elaborate theatre, especially metaphorically. [5] kaiju 怪獣, Japanese genre of horror and science fiction films featuring giant monsters. kakemono [6] 掛け物, a vertical Japanese scroll, of ink-and-brush painting or calligraphy, that hangs in a recess on a wall inside ...
The yose was a popular form of spoken theatre in the Edo period. The term is the shortened form of Hito yose seki (人寄せ席), roughly "Where people sit together". Towards the end of the Edo period, there were several hundred theatres, about one per district (町, chō). The entrance fee, the "wooden door penny" (木戸銭, Kido-zeni), was small