Word: kabuki
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...stage world, Japan's Kabuki theater is a respected example of traditional dance-drama. Its beginnings go back more than 350 years to an Izumo priestess, O-Kuni, who is said to have developed the Kabuki theater from ceremonial shrine dances. At first, most of O-Kuni's female players were young courtesans, and as time went on, their costumes, gyrations and behavior developed an air of such gay abandon that "many people were led astray," say Japanese authorities. In 1629, women were forbidden to take part in the Kabuki theaters, and male actors have played...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). The Kabuki dancers from Japan...
...dealers' shops to watch on TV screens a succession of congratulatory speeches by Japanese officials and U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy ("This reflects the progressive spirit of the new Japan"). The speeches were followed by films of Eisenhower's inaugural, a ballet and the playing of a Kabuki drama called A Scene from Yoshinoyama...
...government-operated, noncommercial Broadcasting Corp. of Japan is limiting telecasts to four hours a day. Programs will be divided between public affairs, sports, news and entertainment, including such familiar items as variety shows, lectures, ballets and cooking courses, and such native ones as Kabuki and No plays and Bunraku puppets...
Outside the huge, modernistic kabuki theater, audiences queued up eagerly last week to see the annual ghost play, traditionally presented in the summer on the theory that the chill of a horror story will mitigate the heat (this year's thriller features a Japanese officer who murders his disfigured wife and is stalked by her ghost through two subsequent acts...