What do you know about Japanese kabuki?

Kabuki is a typical national performance art in Japan, which originated in the early Edo period in17th century and developed into a mature drama in 1600, with only male actors. In the past 400 years, it has been preserved with the ability and madness.

Kabuki is a unique drama in Japan and one of Japan's traditional artistic abilities. 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 ancestor of kabuki is Ako, a beautiful woman known to Japanese women and children. She is a witch of Izumo Society in Shimane Prefecture (that is, unmarried young women who specialize in playing music and praying in shrines). In order to repair the shrine, Chizi raised money everywhere. Handsome and handsome, the proprietress fell in love at first sight, and Agung improvised a humorous plot in real life during the performance, which caused a sensation. 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.

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 girl kabuki", who engaged in prostitution in addition to acting. Without interrupting the development of kabuki, the troupe changed its methods and used young and beautiful men to play female roles, resulting in a "female image" in kabuki, which is called "Ruozhong Kabuki".

The young actor in Ruozhong Kabuki is deeply loved by samurai because of his youth and beauty. Actors have a decadent lifestyle and often have homosexual feelings with the audience. Sometimes, double suicide, elopement and other events will cause social sensation. Although the shogunate has taken various measures to improve it, it is difficult to see the effect, that is, the embryonic form of Japanese kabuki now. Kabuki has since changed the focus of confusing the audience with beauty, turned to acting, and gradually developed into a pure performing art performed by male actors. Only men can play kabuki, and kabuki actors are all men.

After Meiji era, intellectuals and rulers who returned from the west saw that art was regarded as a symbol of national culture in western society. So kabuki is considered as the representative of Japanese culture. Kabuki has since been regarded as an art created by modern people.

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