It refers to Kabuki performances by the boys wearing a youthful hairdo before the coming-of-age ceremony. In the Edo period, men would shave off their forelock as soon as they came of age. Wakashu-Kabuki was performed by those boys who had not yet come of age. It became popular after 1629 when a ban on Onna-Kabuki was issued.
It is considered that the contents were mostly Noh and Kyogen plays devised according to the periods they were performed in. However, the genre was banned in Edo in 1652 and began to disappear.
