Kabuki Today: The Art and Tradition

by Seiichi Makino and Shunji Ohkura

Kabuki traces its origins to exactly the same era as Shakespeare. As the legendary Izumo no Okuni was entertaining spectators with her "kabuki dance revue" in Koyto, Shakespeare's four great tragedies were opening in rapid succession in London.

The art of Kabuki was never intended to mirror life but to be something more grandiose, more spectacular. Kabuki unashamedly makes use of the crudest as well as the most subtle theatrical devices to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4770021356
• ISBN13: 9784770021359
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Kodansha
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 2.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.6" x 8.6"