Nakamuraza

Japanese: 中村座 - なかむらざ

The name of a kabuki theater. It is the oldest of the three Edo theaters. It was first built in February 1624 by Saruwaka Kanzaburo I at Nakabashi in Edo and was called Saruwaka-za, and later took his real surname, Nakamura-za. In the 9th year of the same year, it moved to Negi-cho, and then in 1851 to Kamisakai-cho (Sakai-cho), where it flourished, but in 1842, during the Tenpo Reforms, all three theaters were ordered to move to Saruwaka-cho. After the Meiji period, it went into decline, and was renamed Miyako-za and Saruwaka-za. In 1884, it moved to Asakusa Torigoe and performed there, but it burned down in 1893 and could not be rebuilt, and in 1895, when Nakamura Kanzaburo 13 died, the Nakamura-za name disappeared in both name and reality.

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Japanese:

歌舞伎劇場の名。江戸三座のうち最も古く由緒をもつ劇場。1世猿若勘三郎が寛永1 (1624) 年2月江戸中橋に劇場を建設して猿若座と称したのが最初で，のち本姓の中村を取って中村座と称した。同9年禰宜 (ねぎ) 町に，次いで慶安4 (51) 年上堺町 (堺町) に移って栄えたが，天保 13 (1842) 年天保の改革で3座ともに猿若町に移転を命じられた。明治以後は衰運に傾き，都座，猿若座と改称，1884年浅草鳥越に移って興行したが，93年の焼失後再建できず，かつ 95年に 13世中村勘三郎が没して中村座の名は名実ともに消滅した。

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