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,Prologue: Danjūrō’s Girls,moronic: Women do not perform in the exclusively male theatre of kabuki. And, yet, paradoxically, this book tells the story of women who performed kabuki on some of Japan’s most prestigious stages in recent times.

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,Danjūrō IX and the Actress Question,y line, Ichikawa DanjürO IX, had turned fifty in 1888 and still did not know who would succeed him. His only son had died at birth, although he later had two daughters. Defenders of the all-male kabuki tradition could only agree with the novelist Nagai Kafu that the situation was dire for the kabuki

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Acting Like Men, theatres to one that performed on grand city stages, that was the question asked by critics and spectators alike. Long before becoming famous, the troupe had designated itself a “girls”’ (.) company, first calling itself the Toyokawa Girls’ Kabuki Troupe, then the Tokyo Girls’ Kabuki Troupe, only t

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Life Offstage, in magazines such as . (Housewife’s Friend), . (Cultural Life), and . (Asahi Graph) showed the girls tucked neatly into their futons in two straight rows, as if they were perfectly positioned to regale each other with ghost stories into the wee hours of the night.. Other pictures showed the actress