A stage curtain permanently installed in a theater where Kabuki is performed. "Joshiki" means "pre-determined form." The striped Kabuki Joshiki-maku is made by sewing together fabric of 3 colors: black, moegi (dark green) and kaki-iro (yellowish brown). This design symbolizes Kabuki. The photograph shows the Joshiki-maku of the National theatre of Japan.
Saruwaka Kanzaburo, founder of the Nakamura-za, was ondotori (shantyman) for a Tokugawa Shogunate government ship, and is said to have used the pattern of the canvas he was awarded for leading the singing, for a stage curtain. This is supposedly the origin of the Kabuki Joshiki-maku.