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	Kabuki (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kabuki is a comic book series by artist and writer David Mack, first published in 1994 by Caliber Press and later by Image Comics.
		The character, codenamed Kabuki, is the granddaughter of a former World War II Japanese military man known as "the General" and an Ainu comfort woman, and much of the conflict is her identity between these two worlds.
		In the beginning, Kabuki and the Noh are controlled by two masked men, known as the Devil, who wears an oni kabuki mask, and Dove, who wears an old man kabuki mask, although the group serves the Company, lead by the General.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kabuki_(comics) (650 words)

	facts JPN-kabuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The players of the kabuki drama in its primitive stage were principally women, and with the increasing popularity of kabuki, many of the actresses began to attract undue attention from male admirers.
		The curtain in the kabuki theaters consists of red-brown, fl, and green cotton stripes, and is not raised as in the Western theaters, but drawn aside.
		It is noteworthy that much of the dramatic technique in a kabuki performance is not what the contemporary actors have acquired by themselves, but is the fruit of accumulated efforts contributed by their ancestors for many generations back, and handed down to them by the principle of family inheritance.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/japan/kabuki.html (2947 words)

	An Introduction to Kabuki\| Japan Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The art of kabuki was cultivated mainly by the merchant class, in contrast with Noh theater that was sponsored and refined by the ruling class.
		Kabuki, as the commoners' chief form of entertainment, was strictly regulated and censored by the Tokugawa shogunate for fear that kabuki should cause social disruption and possible contamination of the ruling class.
		Kabuki is a highly stylized performing art that combines acting, dancing, and music in an extraordinary spectacle of form, color, and sound.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/kabuki.html (1387 words)

	Introduction to Japan's Traditional Performing Arts
		Kabuki dates back to the early seventeenth century when Okuni, a maiden consecrated to lzumo Shrine in Shimane Prefecture, created and performed original dances and led a troupe of her own.
		Kabuki was extremely popular with the general public in the Edo period, and its content and style mirror the manners and customs of that time.
		Although kabuki entered a phase of decadence and decline around the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji era (1868-1912), some of the leading actors of the day spearheaded a revivalist movement that led to the creation of a number of new works, mostly dance dramas inspired by noh themes.
	www.kanzaki.com /jinfo/jart-perform.html (956 words)

	ACT'98
		Kabuki's origins date from the beginning of the Edo period in Japan (1603-1868), influenced by ukiyo-e (woodblock prints).
		Nagoya Musume Kabuki, the company presented here, are privileged to be the only troupe in Japan to be recognized and licensed by the Ichikawa school.
		Kabuki performances by female troupes were very popular between 1890 and 1923.
	www.artsconnected.org /act98/moreKabuki.htm (1154 words)

	Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Kabuki Theater
		Kabuki is performed on a large, revolving stage and has such familiar stage devices as scenic backdrops and trapdoors for surprise entrances.
		Standard male kabuki roles include the handsome lover, the virtuous hero or the evil samurai; for an onnagata, roles include the high-ranking samurai lady, the young maiden or the wicked woman.
		Kabuki's candidacy still needs to be ratified by a few more countries, but is expected to receive formal protection under the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage sometime in 2006.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/kabuki.shtml (996 words)

	CBS News \| Japanese Honor Kabuki Acting Great Hayashi
		Kabuki stage names are often passed on through generations, but no one had been considered worthy enough to carry on Sakata's namesake since 1774.
		Kabuki, which originated during 1603-1867 Edo period, is a highly stylized form of theater often based on historical events.
		Kabuki is still wildly popular in Japan, fanned by stars like Hayashi and Nakamura Kankuro V, the media-savvy heir to the famed Heisei Nakamura-za company who has won over younger audiences through his radical interpretations of the traditional art form.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/12/28/ap/entertainment/mainD8EPE4DG0.shtml (513 words)

	David Mack
		Kabuki, an operative of the Noh, becomes deeply affected by the death of her mother and can only relate to the world through the safety of a mask.
		Shaped by a vision of the afterlife in which she believes she is visited by her mother's spirit,she confronts her world with a new sense of purpose.
		A Japanese woman dies, has a vision of the afterlife in which she is visited by her dead mother, and then returns to life with a new sense of resolution and purpose.
	www.davidmack.net /comics.html (492 words)

	Kabuki Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was founded in 1603 by Okuni, an attendant from Izumo Shrine, who introduced her style of dance in the dry river beds of Kyoto; the style was instantly popular.
		Initially kabuki was ensemble dancing performed by women.
		Important characteristics of Kabuki theater include the mie, in which the actor holds a picturesque pose to establish his character, and the hanamichi, an entry path on which the actor becomes the character.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kabuki.html (229 words)

	Kabuki
		Kabuki is a traditional Japanese form of theater with its origins in the Edo period.
		Kabuki, in contrast to the older surviving Japanese art forms such as No, was the popular culture of the townspeople and not of the higher social classes.
		Note that during kabuki plays, it is common for fans in the audience to shout the name of their favorite actor just in the right moment during short pauses.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2090.html (301 words)

	Kabuki Theatre
		Kabuki originated in the Edo period and was more popular with the lower social class as compared to the higher social classes.
		Kabuki plays are about society in a particular period, historical events, moral conflicts, love relationships etc. and are performed using a combination of dramatic dialogue and dance, and accompanied by drums, flutes, stringed instruments called shamisen, and chanting.
		Kabuki performers are very famous in Japan and this theatrical art is usually passed from one family generation to the next, but the National Theater in Tokyo also has a school for training young and upcoming performers.
	www.asianartmall.com /kabukiarticle.htm (533 words)

	Kabuki Theater
		Kabuki had, however, become so popular in the previous twenty-six years that teenage boys took to the stage to replace women, taking over all their roles, including those for private customers, which in 1652 caused this Wakashu Kabuki, teenage boys' Kabuki, to be banned in its turn.
		The physical theater of Kabuki today is based on Noh stages, which have existed since the fourteenth century, and the first difference we notice from a western theater is the long walkway running from the back of the auditorium to stage right.
		Although in some ways the Kabuki stage of today has become somewhat gentrified and now appeals to a section of society quite different to the ordinary working people of the past, it is an authentically unbroken theatrical tradition streaching back almost four hundred years into the very history of Japan itself.
	www.artelino.com /articles/kabuki_theater.asp (1232 words)

	Kabuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kabuki is one of the four forms of Japanese classical theater, the others being noh, kyogen and the bunraku puppet theater.
		Kabuki developed during the more than 250 years of peace of the Edo period (1600–1868).
		The tastes of the merchant culture that developed during this time is reflected in kabuki's magnificent costumes and scenery and in its plays, which contain both larger-than-life heroes and ordinary people trying to reconcile personal desire with social obligation.
	web-japan.org /factsheet/kabuki (181 words)

	Japan - Kabuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kabuki is another form of traditional Japanese theater dating back to the 17th century.
		Shortly after the kabuki theaters were closed, though, they were reopened in 1653 under the proviso that all roles would be played by men.
		Kabuki plays can last up to six hours at a time with themes which are feudalistic in setting.
	www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/japan/jkabuki.html (373 words)

	Kabuki
		Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater.
		It was founded early in the 17th century by Okuni, a shrine maiden who brought her unique and lively dance style to the dry river beds of the ancient capital of Kyoto, and over the next 300 years developed into a sophisticated, highly stylized form of theater.
		Kabuki plays and dances may be about grand historical events or the everyday life of people in the Edo period (1600-1868).
	www.tooter4kids.com /Japan/kabuki.htm (441 words)

	Kabuki Syndrome Network - What is Kabuki?
		The name "Kabuki make-up" was selected because of the facial resemblance to the makeup of actors in Kabuki, traditional Japanese theatre.
		The Kabuki Syndrome Network in The Netherlands has about 40 members in a very small geographic area, Dr. Niikawa has written of at least 100 cases in Japan, and a geneticist in Brazil has reported at least 10 affected families in her country.
		Because Kabuki has such a varied range of characteristics, it is likely that not every child has duplication of the exact same genes in the 8p22-23.1 area.
	www.kabukisyndrome.com /kabuki.html (2422 words)

	What is Kabuki?
		Kabuki is now classical theater in Japan; it has largely been divested of its demimonde and slightly scandalous character.
		For kabuki theater is the entertainment of the common classes; it is not designed to be entertainment for the noble, official, or samurai classes.
		Kabuki as an actor's theater is a theater of gesture; all kabuki acting is "patterned acting." Each gesture, whether in movement, dancing, speech, or music, is highly formal and traditional.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/KABUKI/WHATIS.HTM (3862 words)

	History
		Kabuki themes are centered around conflicts between humanity and the feudalistic system.
		Kabuki origins are said to begin by a woman named Izumo Okuni.
		Kabuki is well respected and appreciated in Japan, but for foreigners it came be tedious to sit through because of the length and language.
	www.bridgewater.edu /~dhuffman/soc306/I99grp8/index1.html (399 words)

	Kabuki
		The new Kabuki repertoire also came under the influence of the older and traditional Noh dramas and Kyogen comedies as well as developing together with the puppet theater.The art of puppetry reached an artistic peak with the opening of Takemoto Gidayu's puppet theater in 1685.
		In time the meaning of the word Kabuki changed and it came to be written with three characters: ka, meaning "song" and implying all music; bu, meaning "dance"; and ki, meaning "art or skill" Thereafter, Kabuki developed greatly as an art.
		Kabuki is often described as "The Resplendent Theater of Japan"or "Grand kabuki,"inviting comparison with Western opera.
	webforce.nwrain.net /kabuki/Kabuki.html (725 words)

	Vocoustics : Kabuki : Promoting Local Music
		Kabuki is derived from classical Japanese verb meaning "to incline" and carries the meaning of something eccentric or deviating from the norm.
		It is a traditional form of Japanese theatre dating from the 17th century and over the next 300 years developed into a sophisticated, highly stylized form of performance art that combines acting, dancing, and music in an extraordinary spectacle of form, color, and sound.
		At the Kabuki Presents nights expect to see a mix of the best of the local scene combined with touring acts from around the country.
	vocoustic.sarcoptic.net /kabuki.php (326 words)

	Kabuki Warriors for Xbox Review - Xbox Kabuki Warriors Review
		Kabuki Warriors is one of the worst games to be released this year or any year, on the Xbox or any other platform.
		The main mode in Kabuki Warriors is its tour mode, in which you take a team of three Kabuki characters from city to city, "performing" by fighting opposing Kabuki teams.
		But it should suffice to say that Kabuki Warriors is one of the worst games to be released this year or any year, on the Xbox or any other platform.
	www.gamespot.com /xbox/action/kabukiwarriors/review.html (801 words)

	Kabuki.com - Home
		Kabuki is the source when it comes to confetti, streamers and CO2 launchers.
		Kabuki is the equipment of choice when it comes time to add excitement to any gathering.
		Kabuki not only established the standards for the confetti and streamer cannon industry, but also set the stage for the meteoric rise of confetti and streamers in special effects today.
	www.kabuki.com /english/content.htm (337 words)

	An Introduction to Kabuki--printer friendly version \| Japan Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		These shouts, called kakegoe (ka-ke-go- eh) are actually shouts of encouragement or recognition made by individual audience members calling out the names of the actors or their affiliations.
		During the Edo period (1603-1868), when kabuki was fully established as a popular theatrical form, distinction between the samurai class and the commoners (peasants, artisans, and merchants) was more rigidly observed than at any other time in the history of Japan.
		Although it would appear that kabuki benefitted from its new respectability, some would argue that once it was regarded as a National Treasure, kabuki lost its original identity and dynamic ties to the common people.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/kabuki-pfv.html (1375 words)

	Kabuki - Jinxworld Forums
		Before anyone interprets this thread as saying anything bad about Kabuki, let me say up front that I am woefully uninformed when it comes to this series and I don't mean any disrespect to it since I'd probably like it if I gave it a proper chance.
		And because, in the most recent times, Kabuki's story is one of identity and change, and how you know yourself in a world where your identity is forced to change.
		I guess it was a combination of the compelling mysteries surrounding Kabuki's situation in that book, and the various ways they could be interpreted, coupled with the sense of exhilaration that the story provided.
	www.606studios.com /bendisboard/showthread.php?t=32428 (1171 words)

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