Child Kabuki actors go through a difficult transitional ... In some scenes, ropes are used so actors “fly” above the spectators. Although Japan has been known for discriminatory attitudes ...

TOKYO — Onstage, Danjuro Ichikawa, one of the biggest stars of Japan's Kabuki theater, is a virtuoso in switching roles. In his latest production, he plays 13 parts, including a princess, a ...

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period ...

Today's play features 2 sumo wrestlers as protagonists! Kabuki actor Kataoka Ainosuke talks about sumo in the Edo period and ...

The Osaka Kansai Expo has recently witnessed a significant cultural event with the attendance of renowned Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro (47) at the illumination ceremony of the 'Iida Group × Osaka ...

Kabuki performers take part in the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup ahead of the Pool A game at Tokyo Stadium, 20 September, 2019 ...

In the Hawaiian Islands, where many Japanese people had immigrated since the Meiji Era (1868-1912), a unique, localized form of Kabuki has been developing for more than a century. Hawaiian Kabuki ...

KOTOHIRA, Kagawa -- Japan's oldest existing playhouse built in the Edo period (1603-1867) in this town in the western part of the country still stages annual spring Kabuki shows. The bartizan with ...