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  2. Kabuki - Wikipedia

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    Kabuki (歌舞伎, かぶき) is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily stylised performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costumes, and for the elaborate kumadori make-up worn by some of its performers. The term kabuki originates from a verb that was ...

  3. Yakusha-e - Wikipedia

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    Utagawa Toyokuni; The Kabuki actor Onoe Eisaburo I; c. 1800. Yakusha-e (役者絵), often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and

  4. Hyōshigi - Wikipedia

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    Hyōshigi are used in traditional Japanese theaters, such as Kabuki and Bunraku theater, to announce the beginning of a performance. [2] The kyogen-kata usually plays the hyoshigi at the start of comedic plays. [3] It can be used to attract the attention of the audience by conductors for theater and even athletic and juggling performances. [4]

  5. Kanjinchō - Wikipedia

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    Kanjinchō was the first kabuki played adapted closely from the Noh theater. [4] Though bearing the same name and general narrative concept as a 1702 play, one of the Kabuki Jūhachiban, the modern version of Kanjinchō, going back to 1840, is believed to not be directly derived from or connected to this earlier aragoto piece. [5]

  6. Tachiyaku - Wikipedia

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    Tachiyaku (立役, alt. tateyaku [1]) is a term used in the Japanese theatrical form kabuki to refer to young adult male roles, and to the actors who play those roles. Though not all tachiyaku roles are heroes, the term does not encompass roles such as villains or comic figures, which form their own separate categories.

  7. Keren (kabuki) - Wikipedia

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    Keren (外連 (ケレン), lit. ' outside party ') are stagecraft tricks used in Japanese kabuki theater, making use of trapdoors, revolving stages, and other equipment. Often translated as "playing to the gallery," drama enthusiasts [who?] consider these sorts of adaptations to be demeaning to the art of kabuki.

  8. Namiki Sōsuke - Wikipedia

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    Namiki Sōsuke (Japanese: 並木宗輔; 1695 – c. 1751), also known as Namiki Senryū, was a prominent Japanese playwright who wrote for both kabuki and bunraku (puppet theater). He produced around 47 bunraku plays, [1] nearly 40 of them composed for jōruri, a particular form of musical narrative, and 10 kabuki plays. [2]

  9. Shunkōsai Hokushū - Wikipedia

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    Signatures of Shunkōsai Hokushū from left to right: “Shunkō ga” (春好 画) and “Shunkōsai Hokushū” (春好斎 北洲) Woodblock print of kabuki actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Seno-o no Tarō