This is the front facade of Kabuki-za, the main Kabuki theater in Tokyo. We went to see one act of a performance today, about two hours. There was small opening segment that was some sort of mythical story about two creatures being given sake. The main story was about three samurai and their assorted wives and followers. One of them (presumably the bad one) ended up with his head chopped off. The motions in Kabuki are highly stylized - a foot raised and a body rotated just so, to a minimal percussive and single string guitar accompaniment. Punctuating the points of transition are people screaming out to the stage the names of various actors - the guy next to me alternated between sleeping against me and shouting out to the stage. Unfortunately no photography or video was allowed but given that the cheap seats were in the last row of the forth balcony they probably wouldn't have been so great anyway.
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