JAPANESE THEATER

Sindhoor and Tyler

WHAT WAS USED IN BUNRAKU

Hand Puppets and Elaborate Scenery

http://www.csuohio.edu/class/history/japan/japan12.html

WHAT WAS USED IN KABUKI

Costumes, make-up, and a Mawari-butai (revolving stage)

WHAT WAS USED IN NOH

Highly expressive masks and elaborate costumes were used.

http://shofu.pref.ishikawa.jp/shofu/geinou_e/nougaku/4e/index_e.html

WHO WAS IN BUNRAKU

Only large hand puppets were in Bunraku

http://www.csuohio.edu/class/history/japan/japan12.html

WHO WAS IN KABUKI

Only men No samurai or women performed

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours/japan/kabuki_theatre_of_japan/kabuki_theatre_of_japan.aspx

WHO WAS IN NOH

All performed in Noh Women rarely performed

http://shofu.pref.ishikawa.jp/shofu/geinou_e/nougaku/4e/index_e.html

WHY DID NO WOMEN PERFORM IN KABUKI?

Tokugawa Shogun banned women

Men that acted as women called Onna-Gata

http://www.csuohio.edu/class/history/japan/japan12.html

WHY WERE THERE NO PROPS IN NOH?

The play centered around poems and music

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