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Tales of Old Tokyo

Edit Caixin Online 16 Apr 2016
A riveting Story of one of the World's Most Fascinating Cities. By Todd Shimoda. Tales of Old Tokyo is a dizzying jumble of quotes, book and newspaper excerpts, woodblock prints, and grainy, mostly black-and-white photos that creates a mosaic of one of the world's greatest cities. By "old" Tokyo, Van Fleet refers to a time period marked by two events ... the ruins of the burned-out Kabuki-za, the round, red, drum-like Nichigeki, undamaged ... ....

Kabuki star prepares to dazzle Las Vegas all over again

Edit Kyodo 15 Apr 2016
TOKYO - Undated supplied photo shows Kabuki star Ichikawa Somegoro. The Kabuki actor had an interview with K... ....

Team Bondah Outdoors Running Mate

Edit Modern Ghana 15 Apr 2016
Gracing the occasion were Secretary hopefuls, Mr Abdul Razak Rashad and Desmond "Papa Nii" Lamptey,WOCOM aspirants-Miss Memuna Kabuki Ibrahim and Rose Adjei Darkwah.Mr Khalid, who is running for SRC Treasurer was also present.Mr Emmanuel Abeka,Bondah's opponent however was missing even though he was found around before the program.In ......

RISE Research and Scholarship Exhibition To Take Place (University of Rio Grande)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Rio Grande). by Jessica Patterson. April 13, 2016. Rio Grande, Ohio -The University of Rio Grande will host the second annual RISE Thursday, April 14 in the John Berry Fine Arts Center ... Dr. Heather Duda, associate professor of English and Honors Program Director, said the event will include several exhibitions including paper discussions, music performances and Kabuki theater ... to 6 p.m ... Back ... (noodl....

KISS to headline Allentown Fair in its first Lehigh Valley show in 24 years

Edit The Morning Call 08 Apr 2016
Allentown Fair is gonna Rock and Roll All Nite. KISS, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band known for its Kabuki-style make-up and heavy metal music, will rock Allentown Fair’s grandstand this summer, it was just announced. The group, which is among the best-selling bands of all time, will take the... ....

'Sweet Bean' from Japan is poignant, memorable

Edit The Examiner 08 Apr 2016
Dorayaki is a popular Japanese pastry, small pancake-like patties with a filling of sweet red bean paste. Can it serve as the subject of an affecting feature film? With "Sweet Bean," Naomi Kawase's film based on Durian Sukegawa's novel, it can and does. Opening today in the Kabuki Sundance Cinemas in San Francisco, and in East Bay and Marin theaters, "Sweet Bean" is highly recommended as a simple, unpretentious, powerful film ... ....

Contemporary Artists Are Reinterpreting 17th-Century Japanese Erotica

Edit Huffington Post 07 Apr 2016
Warning. This post contains nudity and may not be suitable for work environments. If you're not familiar with shunga, the early Japanese tradition of creating explicit images of sexual activity, welcome to the pleasure dome ... That meant more art, more horniness, more erotica.  ... Red light districts, brothels and kabuki theater were all designated areas where citizens could explore their sexual fantasies.  ... "Neo Japonism ... ....

KABUKI ABC (27) / The appeal of evil: Koshiro on why bad guys are so entertaining

Edit The Japan News 06 Apr 2016
The piece was first staged in 1960 and therefore is not among the classical kabuki repertoire ... Looking back on the history of kabuki, Koshiro said. “When kabuki originated in the early Edo period, the initial repertoire consisted of pieces on rewarding good and punishing evil ... As they were well received, bad guys became leading characters in more and more kabuki pieces.” ... Both father and son perform beyond the boundaries of kabuki....

Kabuki for an international audience: Somegoro’s show in Las Vegas a touchstone for expansion

Edit The Japan News 06 Apr 2016
The show will follow a successful kabuki production in the U.S ... Usually, classical kabuki plays are performed overseas — the first was in the former Soviet Union in 1928 — but the centerpiece of Shochiku’s strategy is to stage new works ... This year’s show, titled “Kabuki Lion — Shi-Shi-O ... “We’ll perform at a theater without the usual amenities found at kabuki theaters, such as the hanamichi [walkway] and revolving stage,” he said....

Reviving two masters of ukiyo-e art

Edit The Japan News 06 Apr 2016
A total of 142 of the works are being shown for the first time anywhere ... Slide 1 of 2. PrevNext ... Kunisada’s approach is full of meticulous touches and colorful patterns, readily apparent in his monumental “Great Hit Plays” series (1814-15) and portraits of popular kabuki actors ... Kunisada chose to draw female characters in landscape, and presumably used kabuki actors as models despite a prohibition of their depiction then ... 10-Dec. 11) ... + - ... ....

No Longer Under the Radar

Edit Rhapsody 06 Apr 2016
But finally, there are new albums from Shonen Knife and Babymetal that deserve attention. Shonen Knife as they embark on their 2016 U.K. tour ... But a probably even more lucrative Japanese rock story has been the explosion and continued prominence of the strain known as “visual kei,” a sort of post-kabuki cross-dressing leathered-and-laced equivalent of glam metal and goth punk that ultimately spanned those genres and assorted others ... > ....

Inside the Cauldron of Hebron

Edit Time Magazine 05 Apr 2016
In a perfect world, Hebron would be a showcase of co-existence. The city in the southern section of the Palestinian West Bank is built around the burial plot of Abraham, the patriarch from which Judaism, Christianity and Islam all descend. But even on its best days, Hebron is a cauldron. And Lorenzo Tugnoli showed up during the worst time in years ... But he wanted to go deeper ... Those exchanges, though hardly kabuki, have a familiar feel ... ....

Traditional arts linked: An introduction to Japanese music

Edit The Japan News 05 Apr 2016
“Traditional Japanese Music at a Glance” will be sold in bookstores in the United States as early as April. While countless books have been published in various languages on such Japanese performing arts as kabuki, none have covered the whole range of Japan’s traditional performing arts, nor explained how they are connected with each other. This should not be surprising considering that there were no such books published in Japanese ... ....
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