Japan's largest but most humanized art

The boldest humanistic art in Japan is kabuki.

Kabuki is a typical national performance art in Japan, which originated in the early Edo period of16-17th century and developed into a mature drama in 1600, with only male actors. For 400 years, it has been passed down from generation to generation with energy gathering and crazy talk. Kabuki is a unique drama in Japan and one of Japan's traditional artistic abilities. In Japanese, eye-catching movements and costumes are called "かぶき".

It is listed as an important intangible cultural heritage in Japan and also listed as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2005. Modern kabuki is characterized by exquisite scenery, complicated stage mechanism, gorgeous costumes and makeup, and all actors are male. The most popular expression of kabuki comes from the continuous form of the word "くかぶく".

The ancestor of kabuki is Ako, a beautiful woman known to Japanese women and children. She is a witch of Izumo Society in Shimane Prefecture. In order to repair the shrine, Ako performed everywhere to raise funds, and she also improvised humorous plots in real life, which were deeply loved by the audience. Aguo's innovative "Buddha Dance" has been continuously enriched and perfected, and it has been introduced into the court from the folk, and has gradually become a unique performing art.

Therefore, someone appropriately named the performance with three homonyms: Song (), Dance () and Prostitute (), and the word "singing and dancing prostitute" was born. During the reign of Kuan Yong, female kabuki was forbidden, so the word "geisha" associated with geisha music was used instead of the word "prostitute" associated with geisha.

Origin:

The word kabuki is borrowed from Chinese characters. Before the name was corrected, it originally meant "tilt" because there was a strange movement during the performance. Later, it was nicknamed "Kabuki": Song, representing music; Dancing is dancing; Words mean performance skills.

After kabuki was established in Afghanistan, "tourist girls" in Kyoto and Osaka were influenced by it to organize many "tourist girls kabuki", who engaged in prostitution in addition to acting. Without interrupting the development of kabuki, the troupe changed its methods and played the role of women with beautiful young men, resulting in a "female image" in kabuki, which is called "Ruozhong Kabuki".