Word: kabuki
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...academia is starting to flow both ways. Courses like Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” pack lecture halls at Harvard. After reading Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good deal of English verse...
...Paris' Grand Palais. "Images du Monde Flottant" (Images of the Floating World), which runs until Jan. 3, brings together more than 200 screens, scrolls and prints from Japan, the U.S., Britain, Germany and, especially, Paris' famed Mus?e Guimet. And what a world it was?a paradise of courtesans and Kabuki stars, teahouses and "green houses," where courtesans entertained their customers. All of it was tolerated, though watched closely, by the shogunate. Originally the term "floating world," or ukiyo, referred to the Buddhist notion that the everyday grind of travail and tears is ephemeral. Yet the proprietors and patrons...
...Floating-world" art was propelled by the rise of Kabuki, a form of theater that began one night in 1603, when a priestess named Okuni performed in Kyoto dressed as a kabukimono, or dissolute samurai. The shogunate soon barred women from the stage, but male actors embodying the expressive new style developed large followings?and eager customers for their portraits. A lively example is Katsukawa Shunsho's The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III and Onoe Tamizo I, in which the two men portray a courtesan and a samurai with an intensity that literally defies gravity. Other ukiyo-e scenes were drawn...
...often turn out to be, it's likely to yield some fortuitous by-products: the disappearance of both Japan's worst basket-case bank and its most notorious corporate zombie. It also sets a strong precedent for increasingly open, shareholder-oriented corporate takeovers. By deviating so spectacularly from the Kabuki script that has governed corporate mergers for decades, the heads of Japan's largest banks are finally upholding a truism that theater and capitalism seem to share: the end of a drama is more satisfying when no one knows the outcome in advance...
...cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, where couples can still get married. Every building, from old post offices to police posts, butcher shops to banks, is fronted with an English-language plaque explaining its history. Within, dioramas depict life in the Meiji era (1867-1912). Many displays are interactive: a Kabuki troupe performs in the Kureha-za Theater, while an antique Kyoto streetcar runs to sake tastings at the city's former Nakai Brewery...