Kabuki dance - Kabuki Buyo

Japanese: 歌舞伎舞踊 - かぶきぶよう

One of the early modern Japanese dances. It is also called Kabuki dance, Shosagoto, Keigoto, etc. It is inserted in Kabuki plays or performed independently. It originated from Kabuki dance, which was created by Okuni of Izumo around 1603 by modifying the elegant Nembutsu dance. After Okuni Kabuki, dance was the main focus in the early Kabuki era, such as Onna Kabuki and Wakashu Kabuki. Even after Yaro Kabuki, which advocated the full range of Kyogen impersonations, and during the Hure Kyogen era, many pieces with a particular dance theme were inserted, and even in the era of full-length Kyogen, dances such as "Deha", "Michiyuki", "Kamisumi", and "Onreigoto" were inserted as a part of the drama. After the Kyoho era, dance music developed significantly, female actors who were good at dance appeared, and it became the rule to add one or two acts of theatrical dance dramas. After Tenmei, the first Nakamura Nakazo and other leading actors became excellent dancers, breaking the tradition of female actors monopolizing dance, and pieces with leading roles began to be composed. There are many types of plays, such as Sanbaso, Ishibashi, Dojoji, Tanzen, Kusazurihiki, Matsukaze, Soga, Yamauba, Wankyu, Hyoshimai, Michiyuki, and Henkei, and they represent Japanese dance.

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Japanese:

日本の近世舞踊の一つ。歌舞伎踊，所作事，景事 (けいごと) などともいう。歌舞伎の劇中にはさまれたり，あるいは独立して演じられる。慶長8 (1603) 年頃出雲の阿国が風流の念仏踊から工夫して創始したかぶき踊に始る。阿国歌舞伎以後，女歌舞伎，若衆歌舞伎などの初期歌舞伎の時代は舞踊が中心であった。物まね狂言尽しを標榜した野郎歌舞伎となってからも，放れ狂言の時代は何々踊という曲が多くはさまれ，通し狂言の時代になってからも，「出端」「道行」「髪梳」「怨霊事」などの舞踊が劇の一局面として挿入されて演じられた。享保以後舞踊音楽が著しく発達し，舞踊を得意とする女方が輩出して，芝居がかりの舞踊劇を1～2幕加えるのが原則となった。天明以後初代中村仲蔵らの立役で舞踊にすぐれた者が出て，女方の舞踊独占の慣習が破られ，立役を主役とする曲も作られるようになった。三番叟物，石橋物，道成寺物，丹前物，草摺引物，松風物，曾我物，山姥物，椀久物，拍子舞物，道行物，変化物など多くの種類があり，日本舞踊を代表する。

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