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Onnagata (女形/女方, lit. 'female role'), also oyama (女形), are male actors who play female roles in kabuki theatre. [1] It originated in 1629 after women were banned from performing in kabuki performances. [2] There are many specific techniques that actors must learn to master the role of onnagata.
Adult male actors, however, continued to play both female and male characters, and kabuki retained its popularity, remaining a key element of the Edo period urban life-style. Although kabuki was performed widely across Japan, the Nakamura-za, Ichimura-za and Kawarazaki-za theatres became the most widely known and popular kabuki theatres, where ...
He is a third-generation Kabuki actor and comes from a renowned Kabuki acting family: his father, Onoe Kikugorō VII (七代目 尾上菊五郎) is one of the greatest Kabuki actors of the Showa and Heisei eras and is known for his versatility with both male and female roles and his grandfather, Onoe Baikō VII (七代目 尾上梅幸) was known for being one of the greatest onnagata actors of ...
Tachiyaku (立役, alt. tateyaku [1]) is a term used in the Japanese theatrical form kabuki to refer to young adult male roles, and to the actors who play those roles. Though not all tachiyaku roles are heroes, the term does not encompass roles such as villains or comic figures, which form their own separate categories.
Ayumi Fujimura (藤村 歩, born 1982), Japanese voice actress; Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎 あゆみ, born 1978), Japanese singer; Iconiq (real name Ayumi Itō 伊藤 亜由美, born 1984), Zainichi Korean singer who was a member of the Korean girl group Sugar; Ayumi Ishida (actress) (いしだ あゆみ, born 1948), Japanese actress and singer
Yukitarō is adopted and brought up by Kikunojō Nakamura, the actor-manager of an Osaka kabuki troupe. The adult Yukitarō becomes an onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles, taking the stage name Yukinojō. He wears women's clothes and uses the language and mannerisms of a woman offstage as well as on.
Kakegoe are used in traditional music ensembles, such as Hayashi, Nagauta, Taiko, and Tsugaru-jamisen.They are used to cue different parts of a musical piece. They can signal anywhere from the beginning or end of a particular rhythm, the beginning or end of an improvisation section for an instrument virtuoso, to cuing different instrument entrances.
Okuni Kabuki-zu Byōbu, a six-panel canvas from the 17th century, is the oldest known painting featuring Izumo no Okuni (pictured onstage, third panel from left).. Around 1603, Okuni began performing on the dry riverbed of the Shijōgawara (Fourth Street Dry Riverbed) of the Kamo River [5] and at Kitano Shrine. [6]