Kabuki theater

Japanese: 歌舞伎劇場 - かぶきげきじょう

A theater where Kabuki is performed. The general term is a recent one, and in the past it was called a theater, a playhouse, a hut, or a playhouse. However, today it refers to a theater exclusively used for Kabuki, and refers to an architectural structure that can perform Kabuki. A tower was built at the entrance, and the outer wall was made of bamboo fences and matting. It started out as a Noh stage, and gradually a secondary stage was added, and the box and earthen floor were expanded, and the wooden enclosure was used. In 1717 (Kyoho 2), a boarded roof was permitted, and in 1718, a full-covered stage and audience seating were realized. The stage mechanism was constructed around Genbun (1603-1741), and in 1758 (Horeki 8), the first Namiki Shozo devised a revolving stage, and in 1869 (Horeki 12), the mechanism for the protruding stage was completed, and in 1896 (Kansei 8), the gables inherited from the Noh stage were removed, and in 1847 (Koka 4) at the end of the Edo period, the double revolving stage, the Janome mawashi, was created.

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Japanese:

歌舞伎を演じる劇場。一般的呼称となったのは新しく，かつては芝居小屋，芝居，小屋，芝屋と呼ばれていた。ただし，今日では歌舞伎専有の劇場をさし，歌舞伎上演機能を建築上もっているものをいう。入口にやぐらを組み，竹矢来，むしろ張りで外郭とし，能舞台の襲用に始り，次第に付舞台を加え，桟敷土間ともに拡張，板囲い式となり，享保2 (1717) 年板葺屋根が許可され，同9年に全蓋式，客席実現。舞台機構は元文 (36～41) 頃に花道から名のり台を架設，宝暦8 (58) 年には1世並木正三が回り舞台を考案，同 12年にせり出しの機構が整い，寛政8 (96) 年には能舞台から踏襲した破風が撤去され，幕末の弘化4 (1847) 年には二重の回り舞台である蛇の目回しを発生させている。

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