TOKYO — Onstage, Danjuro Ichikawa, one of the biggest stars of Japan's Kabuki theater, is a virtuoso in switching roles. In his latest production, he plays 13 parts, including a princess ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore the different types of romantic heroes who appear in kabuki. From sweet, comic charmers to brooding bad boys, actor Kataoka ... dreams and philosophies of Japanese culture in different ...

An oshiguma, or face pressing by three Kabuki actors; Ichimura Takematsu IV ... were continuing to open up the perceptions of the Japanese to Western ideas creating a crucible out of which ...

Foreboding depictions of this Japanese ghost story ... of the production and its specific actors, often identified in the prints, and to recall the stories. Kabuki, which originated in the Edo ...

the implication being that the actors there might be 'big radishes', something of an insulting implication. As a result the four existing theaters; the Shintomiza, Ichimuraza, Nakamuraza ...

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 ...