Word: kabuki
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...grew up in a jampacked household, the family circle swollen by two servants and seven extra boys, all apprentices from her father's thriving iron factory. No one paid much attention to her, Miyoshi remembers. She was too little. But she managed to steal into the neighborhood Kabuki theater, and had money enough for "ice" candy. Today, onstage, she sings her Flower Drum song...
...curried rice, raw fish or veal cutlet for lunch, go home to green tea, rice, seaweed, lily bulb, lotus root and bean curd. They go to see Marilyn Monroe at the cinema one night, follow this up (finances permitting) with long excursions to lengthy and painstakingly stylized classic Japanese Kabuki or No dramas...
...Discreet Career Girl. O-Koi, second of the geishas, tailored her kimono-clad ambitions along career-woman lines. Her first lover was a stockbroker, her only husband a famed Kabuki actor who later deserted her. After two leading wrestlers (as prestigious in Japan as bullfighters in Spain) staged a public match for her favors, she came to the attention of the Prime Minister, Taro Katsura, and became his mistress. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. O-Koi had a place in Katsura's inmost councils without betraying a single confidence...
...concert artists all over the world for more than 40 years. This season, for example, he presented in the U.S. the Comédie-Française, the Sadlers Wells Ballet, the Santa Cecilia Choir of Rome, Antonio and his Spanish Ballet Company, the Scots Guards Band, the Kabuki Dancers, the Vienna Choir Boys. Last week, hewing to his principle of giving the public the best, he presented his second TV show of the season.* It was easily the best show of the week, an NBC Spectacular called Festival of Music (Producers' Showcase, Mon. 8 p.m.), which gathered...
...most mysterious master in the history of Japanese art was a printmaker who signed himself Sharaku, meaning depict pleasure. One spring day in 1794 Sharaku entered a guidebook and print shop on the edge of Edo's red-light district carrying some stark, needle-sharp portraits of Kabuki actors. The shopkeeper agreed to publish his drawings, so for the next ten months Sharaku depicted the pleasures of the stage. His prints sold badly, and Sharaku vanished, never to produce again. He left behind a body of work as exquisite as it was small: two painted fans, 17 drawings...