Kabuki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kabuki is the highly stylized classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers. The individual kan...
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The best-known kabuki playwrights are Shozo Namiki (1730-1773) and Gohei Namiki (1747-1808) in Osaka, and Jisuke Sakurada (1734-1806), Nanboku Tsuruya IV (1755-1829) and Mokuami Kawatake (1816-93) in Edo. As senior playwrights, they each led a team of apprentices to compose new day-long productions every couple of months.
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Many kabuki scripts are based on scripts from another form of traditional Japanese theatre, bunraku. Bunraku is a form of puppet theatre that rivalled kabuki as the popular form of theatre in Japan. In order to win back their audience, many kabuki playwrights adapted bunraku scripts for the kabuki stage.
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These are referred to as shin kabuki or "new kabuki." Mayama Seika is one of the best-known shin kabuki playwrights, and many of the plays he wrote in the ...
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In 1893, at age 78, the great playwright Kawatake Mokuami died. ... Shoyo was followed by many other shin-kabuki playwrights, all of whom wrote historical plays based on traditional kabuki acting and staging but influenced by modern dramaturgy introduced from the West.
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For a decade starting in 1695, he wrote about 30 Kabuki works including "Keisei hotoke no hara" for Sakata Tojuro 1st, a great actor in Kamigata (Kyoto and Osaka area). The professional position of writers in Kabuki was established by the great activity of Chikamatsu Monzaemon ... > History of Kabuki: Establishment of Wagoto...
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Chikamatsu was one of the first professional playwrights in Kabuki though his most famous works were for the Bunraku puppet theater. Especially popular were his love suicide plays, in which a young couple would decide to take their own lives when social pressures kept them from being together.
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There are about 300 plays in the conventional kabuki repertoire. To these, new plays are now being added by men of letters who are not directly associated with the kabuki. Previously, the plays were supplied almost exclusively by the playwrights of the kabuki theater itself.
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This play is a late masterpiece by KAWATAKE Mokuami, perhaps the last of the great traditional Kabuki playwrights. The main character, Kochiyama, is a notorious gambler and extortionist masquerading as a Buddhist Priest.
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