deviate"; the term is also the origin of the name for kabuki theatre (歌舞伎) as the founder of kabuki, Izumo no Okuni, took heavy inspiration from the kabukimono...

Kabuki (歌舞伎, かぶき) is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily...

The latter's dynamic dance gave rise to a series of sanbasō mono repertoires in kabuki: the play Kotobuki Shiki Sanbasō is the most ritualistic, and...

kun'yomi reading, it is pronounced shinobi, a shortened form of shinobi-no-mono (忍びの者). The word shinobi appears in the written record as far back as the...

(Wowow, 2014) as Hirose The Thorns of Alice (TBS, 2014) as Yuma Bandai Kabuki-Mono Keiji (NHK, 2015) as Shinkuro Mutsu: Mieru Me (Fuji TV, 2015) as Ibara...

invented the theatrical art form of kabuki. She is thought to have begun performing her new art style of kabuki (lit. 'the art of singing and dancing')...

Beauty: Utsukushii-mono) is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Toshio Gotō. The film explores themes of love, beauty, kabuki, and the strength of...

goemonburo ("Goemon bath"). Ishikawa Goemon is the subject of many classic kabuki plays. The only one still in performance today is Kinmon Gosan no Kiri (The...

known as dance or dance-drama, is a type of kabuki play based on dance. It is one of the three genres of kabuki, together with jidaimono (historical plays)...

embodies a Samurai aesthetic like "Basara" in the Nanboku dynasty era and Kabuki-mono at the end of the Sengoku era. "Neo Japanese-style painting" is an art...