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Kabuki is a traditional Japanese theater. It has dancing, singing, mime, and over exaggerated movements, and gestures. Kabuki is semi-fictional, and can tell stories, prediction, and it can teach lessons.

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When Kabuki started to rise in popularity, the actors were primarily women. The first ever recorded kabuki show was in Kyoto, in 1603, and was preformed by a Shinto priestess named Izumo no Okuni and her small group of female dancers. Kabuki was driven from the art form Noh, the samurai fighting technique.

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The men were not so happy that only females actors, sometimes playing a mans part, were the only ones allowed. So, the made there own version, for guys only, called Yaro kabuki. It was practically the same thing.

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Kabuki was at the start of major recognition around 1653–1724. Kabuki was at the top of all entertainment around the end of the 18th century,

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The Kakiwari - a set peice, a scene backdrop
The Hanamichi - a elongated stage extinded from front of theater, to the back
The Mawari Butai - a rotating stage
The Seri - a platform that can move up, or down
Shimote - stage right
Kamite - stage left

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The basic kabuki costume consisted of a katsura ( a wig ) a large/flowing kimono, and grease paint, or masks to exaggerate the face.
Every color had a meaning to the character that they played. Here are the color's meanings in kabuki!
Deep Red - anger, indignation, forcefulness, obstinacy
Red - activeness, eagerness, passion, vigor
Pink/Pale Red - cheerfulness, youthful, gaiety
Light Blue - calm, composed
Indigo - melancholy, gloominess
Very Light Green - tranquility
Purple - sublimity
Brown - selfishness, egotism, dejection
Grey - dreariness, cheerlessness
Black - fear, terror, fright, gloom
White - purity, youthful, innocence
Yellow - joy, friendship, welcoming
Coral - desire
Lavender - love at first sight, enchantment

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There was the narrator, called the Gidhau. Other kabuki actors could be ghosts, samurai, fair maidens, and demons.

This is a demon kabuki mask.

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Tale of the 47 Ronin
The Love Suicide at Sonezaki
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Kyoto Doll
Renjishi
The Tale of Genji

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JjLuh4Ns7s
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