No doubt Stephen Sondheim fans have seen his most popular musicals many times. But that’s not the case with his masterpiece ...

Welcome to Gion, a district that draws you in with its traditional wooden machiya merchant houses, stunning shrines and temples, and centuries-old geisha and kabuki traditions. Begin at Yasaka Shrine, ...

Rowley specialises in making Japanese women and their stories known to English-speaking readers. She has written a study of Yosano Akiko, the feminist poet, and she translated Autobiography of a ...

The eleventh month has long been an exciting time for kabuki aficionados, as it marks the start of a new season of performances. It was customary during the Edo period (1603–1868) for kabuki ...

Kabuki is a centuries-old form of popular theater whose art has been passed down through the generations from father to child, from master to apprentice. Nakamura Takanosuke is the son of Nakamura ...

In Midas Man, British actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd has been transformed into the dapper style that encapsulated Brian Epstein during his life. Jacob told us: "I must admit I didn’t know much about ...

Old Trafford has proven a fruitful nursery for some of the most exceptional talents witnessed in British football over the past half-century and Man Utd supporters will be hopefu Obi-Martin can ...

Teraoka drew on the Japanese heritage of kabuki theatre prints with their beautiful women and the shunga erotic ... Imagine the horror when McDonald’s “invaded” Japan and opened its first store in ...

Since the late 2000s, posters on social media and online messageboards have been sharing their experiences of waking in the dark to find a shadowy figure, dubbed the Hat Man, looming over them.

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KYOTO--Surgical face masks to protect against COVID-19 replaced the traditional white makeup sported by geisha and their ... annual year-end Kichirei Kaomise Kabuki performance as part of their ...