Kabuki’s origins in sensational street performances and its later developments in the teahouse theatres of the notorious red light districts of the growing cities of the Edo period can still be traced in kabuki’s eroticism and its rich repertoire. As its name, kabuki (song-dance-acting), indicates, it combines various genres of dance and music while it is characterised, at the same time, by its highly exaggerated, mimetic acting style. No other traditional form of theatre in Asia has evolved into such a grandiose stage spectacle as the kabuki theatre, which is four centuries old. Thousands of woodblock prints from kabuki’s golden age show famous actors in their celebrated roles, private collection Sakari Viika No other Asian theatre form is visually as well documented as kabuki. Kabuki combines mime, spoken drama, singing, music, dance, and stage tricks Sakari ViikaĪ 19th-century woodblock print.
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