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>Kabuki means
>Wide-ranging public entertainment
>Public entertainment pursuing stylized expression
>History of Kabuki
>Birth of Kabuki - Izumo no Okuni
>From Onna-kabuki to Wakashu-kabuki
>Development of Yaro-kabuki
>Establishment of Aragoto - Ichikawa Danjuro 1st
>Establishment of Wagoto - Sakata Tojuro 1st
>Popularization of Gidayu kyogen
>Development of Shosagoto
-Nakamura Tomijuro 1st and Nakamura Nakazo 1st
>Tsuruya Namboku era
-Matsumoto Koshiro 5th and Iwai Hanshiro 5th
>Establishment of Kabuki-juhachiban
>Birth of Saruwaka-mach
>Remarkable activity of Kawatake Mokuami - from last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate into Meiji
>Modernization of Kabuki
>Popularization of Shin-kabuki
>Inheritance of classical Kabuki
>Kabuki after WWII - revival to prosperity
>Kabuki at present
>The Kabuki stage
>Kabuki stage mechanisms
>Changes in theaters
>Agemaku
>Suppon
>Seri
>Daijin-bashira/Hombutai
>Naraku
>Hanamichi
>Mawaributai
>Kuromisu
>Yuka
>Joshiki-maku
>Expressions in Kabuki
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Expression of roles
>Umeoumaru
>Izaemon
>Sekimori Sekibe (actually Otomo Kuronushi)
>Sogano Iruka
>Kamiyui Shinza
>>Sato Tadanobu (actually Genkurogitsune)
>Miuraya Agemaki
>Yaegakihime
>Kirare Otomi
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Expression of scenes
>Joshiki-Standard stage settings
>Expression of weather
>Matsubamemono dramatics
>Dramatics of final scenes
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Expression by actors
>Myoseki and Yago
>>Actors' crests
>Ie no gei
>Kata
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Distinctive expressions
>Hikinuki
>Chunori
>Tachimawari
>Roppo
>Mie
>Ningyoburi
>Kurogo
>Kabuki maku
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Expression by sounds
>Geza
>Ki
>Tsuke
>Takemoto
>Nagauta
>Tokiwazu-bushi
>Kiyomoto-bushi
>Narimono
>Kabuki repertoire
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Kabuki dramaturgy
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Eminent playwrights
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Classification of repertoire
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Repertoire
>Aotozoshi hanano nishikie
>Bancho sarayashiki
>Fujimusume
>Gion sairei shinkoki
>Heike nyogonoshima
>Honcho nijushiko
>Imoseyama onna teikin
>Iromoyo chotto karimame
>Kanadehon chushingura
>Kanjincho
>Kawasho
>Keisei hangonko
>Koibikyaku yamato orai (Koi no tayori yamato orai)
>Kotobuki soga no taimen
>Kumo ni magou ueno no hatsuhana
>Kuruwa bunsho
>Kyoganoko musume dojoji
>Meiboku sendaihagi
>Momijigari
>Narukami
>Natsumatsuri naniwa kagami
>Oshu adachigahara
>Sagimusume
>Sakurahime azuma bunsho
>Sannin kichisa kuruwa no hatsugai
>Sato moyo azami no ironui
>Shibaraku
>Shimpan utazaimon
>Shunkyo kagamijishi
>Sonezaki shinju
>Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
>Sukeroku yukari no edozakura
>Tokaido yotsuya kaidan
>Tsumoru koi yuki no sekinoto
>Tsuyu kosode mukashi hachijo
>Yoshitsune sembonzakura
>Yowa nasake ukina no yokogushi
>To view stage picture
>Credits
>Bibliography
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