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Japanese: 切落し - きりおとし

One of the popular seats in theaters during the Edo period. During the Shotoku and Kyoho eras (1711-1736), they were the seats on the first floor at the front, from the front edge of the stage to the aisles (walks) leading to the left and right sides at the back. During the Kyowa era (1801-1804), a square partition (shikirimasu) was built here, and a small portion of kiriotoshi remained at the rear of the hanamichi, but after the Bunka era (1804-18), they disappeared. It is said that the name kiriotoshi comes from the fact that they were lower than the box seats on either side, which were the higher-class seats, but there is no definite proof. To enter kiriotoshi, one had to buy a kiriotoshi ticket (a type of ticket) with the name of the theater branded on it at the partition area at the entrance, and in the mid-Edo period, this cost 132 mon.

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Japanese:

江戸時代の劇場の大衆席の一つ。正徳，享保年間 (1711～36) 頃は，舞台の前端から後方の左右に通じる通路 (歩み) までの1階正面の席であった。享和年間 (1801～04) 頃には，ここに方形の仕切桝 (しきります) ができて，切落しは花道の後方脇にわずかに残り，文化年間 (04～18) 以後には消滅した。切落しの名称の由来は，両側の上等席である桟敷よりは一段と低く落ちていたからだといわれるが確証はない。切落しへは，入口の仕切場 (しきりば) で，座名の焼き印を押した切落札 (一種の切符) を買って入ったが，江戸時代中期で 132文であった。

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