Kyogenshi - Kyogenshi

Japanese: お狂言師 - おきょうげんし

An actress in the Edo period. Because Kabuki was a world for men only, women formed troupes and performed plays and dances in the Ooku or in the inner quarters of various feudal lords, where men were not allowed. Most of them were dance teachers in the town, and each had a set number of daimyo whom they frequented. It is unclear when they first began, but they are thought to have existed in the mid-Edo period. After the Meiji period, some female Kabuki performers performed, but many became independent dancers, and became the basis for the establishment of a dance world separate from the world of Kabuki.

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Japanese:

江戸時代における女優のこと。歌舞伎が男性のみの世界であるため，女性のみの一座を組み，男子禁制の大奥や諸大名の奥向きで芝居や舞踊を演じた。そのほとんどが町の踊りの師匠で，それぞれの出入り先の大名がほぼ決っていた。その初めは明らかではないが，江戸時代中期には存在していたと考えられる。明治以後，女歌舞伎を興行した者もいたが，多くは舞踊家として独立し，歌舞伎の世界とは別の舞踊界成立の基となった。

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