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kabuki
Popular Japanese entertainment that combines music, dance, and mime in highly stylized performance. The word is formed of three Japanese characters--ka (song), bu (dance), and ki (skill). Kabuki dates from the end of the 16th cent., when it developed from the nobility's No theater and became the theater of townspeople. In its early years it had a licentious reputation, its actors often being prostitutes; women and young boys were consequently forbidden to perform, and kabuki is today performed by an adult all-male cast. Its texts, unlike No texts, are easily understood by its audience. The lyrical but fast-moving and even acrobatic plays, noted for their spectacular staging and elaborate costumes and with striking makeup in place of masks, are vehicles in which the actors demonstrate a wide range of skills. Kabuki employs two musical ensembles, one onstage and the other offstage. It shares much of its repertoire with bunraku.
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