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What are the characteristics of kabuki in Japanese modern dance?

Kabuki art came into being in Tokugawa shogunate era and flourished in Edo era. It is a dramatic performance art formed under the influence of various Japanese song and dance arts, and has a continuous relationship with Japanese dance music, energetic music and clear glass in human form. Kabuki dance was originally performed by women, but it was banned by the government because the kabuki art performed by women became a social instability factor in the samurai era. Later kabuki art was performed by young and beautiful men, which was called "Ruozhong Kabuki Dance". In the first year of the commitment, equivalent to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese government changed the ban and began to ban many kabuki performances. Since then, kabuki has gradually been performed by women. Women's kabuki dance mainly focuses on performance, with gorgeous costumes, and the ingenious combination of costumes and action lines presents a unique aesthetic feeling.