In the early days of Kabuki, women were allowed to act. But this lead to a lot of prostitution, so they were banned from the stage. The same went for beautiful young boys, they were also banned. This is the way it kept on being like and so it's become traditional for Kabuki to only be played by adult men.
@Louchan2 The prostitution led to Kabuki, not the other way around. lol
The origins of Kabuki were in 'working women' advertising their services by performing amusing plays in the city with an all-female cast. When they were banned from performing in the city, they moved their stage to the outskirts of town. When women were banned from the stage outright, the tradition of onnagata started (but, predictably, it did little to curb prostitution).
lol b/c she couldn't let go of her spite. buddhism explains life as a cycle of suffering in life, death, punishment, then rebirth to suffer again. you're stuck in this cycle unless you can let go of earthly attachments. or something like that~ i'm not a expert, so you'll need to double check elsewhereee.
@odinsvalkrie Yup. Bando Tamasaburo is a very skilled onnagata (女形 - Female Role Specialist, literally either "Female Form" or "Female Way" depending on the kanji used). Females were not allowed to perform kabuki after 1620 something (though they still did in the pleasure quarters under a different name I think). The roles were eventually given to men. Tamasaburo is one of the most prominent onnagata right now. Thus I have grossly over simplified a complex history. Go me.
@odinsvalkrie Yes; women were forbidden to act on the stage in medieval Japan, just like in Renaissance Europe. (Originally, Japanese brothels would put on plays and dances as advertisement for their girls, and huge fights would break out in the street over which john would get which girl, so the government banned women from the stage in an attempt to curb this violence without actually restricting prostitution, since they made a lot of tax money off of the girls' revenue, lol.)
yeah...great. he walks around, gestures, walks some more...gestures again, then hides behind an umbrella while some helper dudes switch his clothes...riveting stuff!
@1johncain It's a lot more then that dude just look at the two comments above you. These guys train from the age of 2 to get to this point and start acting at 5 -_-
Tamasaburo is flawless! The feminineness is so graceful and euphoric.
However the greatest Kabuki of all time is a female, Izumo no Okuni, the inventor of Kabuki itself. Surely if women were allowed to play both male and female roles once again they are just as graceful, strong and powerful.
i like the commentarist a lot! but i wished i could understand it by just looking at it... does the lyrics describe the scene? from some lyrics i could see that you have to understand japanese culture very deeply do fully understand kabuki.. am i wrong?? i wanna appreciate it the right way xD
Kabuki is pretty complex. A knowledge of the language is key but even that is not going to help 100%, as the lyrics tend to make illusions to places and words that have greater meaning and signifigance. I'm not sure which one it is but there is a certain bridge that is mentioned and for a foreigner that won't have much meaning, however the bridge has a long history of being a place of seperation and sorrow as many lovers/family seperated there. Kabuki appears simple but is not...
There are also special regards to costumes and colors as well, but I confess I'm not up on that knowledge. I don't really know a whole lot, but I do know that it's a deceptively simple looking art form. There's much more beneath the surface and I suspect you'd need to do a lot of reading/watching to begin to understand it all. The movements and props are also important and like so many other things, they have meanings in what they allude to. It is a pleasurable journey to learn it :)
Ever seen ballet dancers up close? Same thing. Being in a shape that'd get Bruce Lee's seal of approval rather comes with the territory for pros in these physically demanding Old Skool performance arts...
Also, damn but Tamasaburo is awesome.
On another note, I find it vaguely amusing but by no means surprising that the themes in these are basically the same as in just about any classical Western play, ballet and what have you - chalk one up to the universal human condition.
@broadbandislife Maybe uneducated people do not understand Kabuki dance's value. Kabuki and dance has 400 years history. Drama and Dance have thousands of costume, colours, figure, and also stories on KKIMONO clothes. Yes, Kabuki has whole arts in its system. Kabuki is art of art.
For keeping it all down in such slow motion, let alone those back-breaking prawn-backs, every inch of his body must be toned up with muscle. IOW, this unworldly feminine elegance comes materialised only by muscular build-up brought about by masculine commitment to the role. What a revelation this is - HE IS.
There's a lot of symbolism. The girl loved this man and was betrayed by him, being thrown into depression. She is symbolized by the innocent and pure heron who went through hell and then died.
How unfair. Why should a girl whose love is betrayed go to hell and go through such endless torment? I feel this deep in my soul. Not in so beautiful and artistic a fashion, but, the same impending sorrow. My sister was deeply taken with Japanese art and ways. She fell in love with her yoga teacher. She bought a beautiful white kimomo she planned to wear when they married. He married a japanese girl instead. My sister eventually went to a cliff folded her clothes and jumped off.
Dancer of a great skill! Such powerful expression. Also the music was excellent (not to mention the stage, also amazing)! Thank you for uploading this!
Did I mention that I saw him perform this dance and I was there ! If I have a chance to go to Japan again,I would love to see him on the stage again !! He is a beauty.
Tamasaburo plays "mie" using her umbrella at 1:24 and 1:43.
It seems to me that Tamasaburo's "mie" mirrors the eternal beauty of youth in an instant before she enters hell aspiring salvation at the end of the dance.
A shakuhachi is actually different. This is a shinobue which is in the family of flutes called yokobue (meaning transverse flute). Shakuhachi are straight and have a much deeper tone. Also the blowing is different.
i echo all your comments. beautiful to the point that i am totally speechless at the art and the actor for his outstanding performance. i shared 'her' suffering thru his wonderful performance.
@GedatsuSama i agree with you completely!!! ive watched this a number of times, along with other pieces, but i always come back to this one, its just so...elegant, beautiful, mesmorizing, and i looove Tamasaburo's performance, he is AH MAAA ZING!!!
Yes, but there's a reason to that, once women acted in the called okuni kabuki, but people started seeing it for the actresses's beauty, so the government forbade it.
Tamasaburo will be another of the names revered in this wonderful caleidoscope,that is the Great Arts in different Cultures! Delicate and moving! tiffenakou has been spoiling us with these postings!
But, you were the messenger, your videos carried the Divine. BTW I found out (Google)Tamasaburo is an inhereted level (Title) of perfection All this is fascinating! Thanks
This is my first. ^_^ My Japanese teacher emailed us all these videos. Now I want more. Tamasaburo is very skilled with the gestures and the... spasms. Very good acting and dancing.
Argh, I want to do it, too! Even if I'm female... ah well, in the meantime, I'll do ballet, even if that's not the same thing. xD
Geisha is mostly entertaining at parties (with music, dance, conversation, games). You don't have to be a geisha or a kabuki actor to do nihon-buyo (japanese dance). Making a living out of teaching it seems *much* more accessible for a foreigner than trying to be a geisha...
I see a similarity between this type of dance and some of the traditional forms of Indian dance. There is a feeling in each style of the dance consisting of a series of frame by frame picture perfect poses set to music. Every aspect of the performance from the cahracters demeanor, to their physical posture, facial expression and costume, down to the smallest details combines with the music (and, where present scenery) to create a comprehensive image and to evoke an exact mood.
Superb!!
95m26 2 weeks ago
very well done axcellent,sorry to hear about your siser suiseki1
TheAtem01 2 weeks ago
この、曲の題名は何て言うんですか？
okan1141 2 months ago
Beautiful!
AVDPhoenix 2 months ago
@suiseki1 I'm so sorry that your sister did that. :( </3
delight046 2 months ago
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
MsSukapadla 3 months ago
i love his facial expression
katieperez777 3 months ago
素晴らしい
kazu29142914 4 months ago
私は日本文化についてよく知らないが、私が知っているのは私はそれの伝統を愛していることです。私はニカラグア中央アメリカから来たんだと私たちも伝統を持っていますが、このようになし！私は日本からのご希望はほとんど場合、それは美しいもの、それは私の目を引く。女性は美しく、noの質問男性に質問。どのように私は私が古代文明に戻っていた希望。殺害を除いて、LOL
305missbunny 4 months ago
i want a kimono like that one
TheBLACKKAT1 4 months ago
brilliant...
YoushouNoKioku 4 months ago in playlist Kabuki
YOYOIUMM!!
Addam3000 4 months ago
それは綺麗な踊り方ですね。
wanderamorim 5 months ago
why women cant act?
Peulea 5 months ago
@Peulea
In the early days of Kabuki, women were allowed to act. But this lead to a lot of prostitution, so they were banned from the stage. The same went for beautiful young boys, they were also banned. This is the way it kept on being like and so it's become traditional for Kabuki to only be played by adult men.
Louchan2 4 months ago
@Louchan2 The prostitution led to Kabuki, not the other way around. lol
The origins of Kabuki were in 'working women' advertising their services by performing amusing plays in the city with an all-female cast. When they were banned from performing in the city, they moved their stage to the outskirts of town. When women were banned from the stage outright, the tradition of onnagata started (but, predictably, it did little to curb prostitution).
sadakokimono 1 month ago
she looks like a princesse , or a fragile doll . What a wonderfull dress and elegance ! Waow ! merci
TheGainsbourg 7 months ago
HE is REALLY BEAUTIFULL!!
xD
jyunpyondesu 7 months ago
the voice is so annoying. it kills all emotion the whole dance
sodaaha 7 months ago
this is like the dance of Sayuri! :3
KunoichiGuitarist382 8 months ago 3
@KunoichiGuitarist382 Contrariwise... I believe the dance choreographed for Ziyi Zhang was inspired by this Kabuki play, not the other way around.
ExplodingCakes 6 months ago 2
@ExplodingCakes yea! i can really see how the dance in memoirs was influenced
mimitsu333 5 months ago
@KunoichiGuitarist382 They based Sayuri's dance off of this particular performance for the film.
CreatrixArts 5 months ago in playlist geisha - snow dance
@KunoichiGuitarist382 This is indeed the dance that Sayuri did in the movie...a hollywood adaptation though of course :)
jasonyhnung13 3 months ago
Yes, it IS a guy. Women are traditionally not permitted to perform in Kabuki.
donbasuradenuevo 8 months ago
@donbasuradenuevo why?? can you tell me why women are not allowed? thankyou :3
silvicurlytop 7 months ago
Wait, why did the character go to hell for being betrayed by her lover? That makes no sense.
redgirlinbluedresses 8 months ago
@redgirlinbluedresses
lol b/c she couldn't let go of her spite. buddhism explains life as a cycle of suffering in life, death, punishment, then rebirth to suffer again. you're stuck in this cycle unless you can let go of earthly attachments. or something like that~ i'm not a expert, so you'll need to double check elsewhereee.
surgerryy 8 months ago
Thats a guy?
odinsvalkrie 10 months ago
@odinsvalkrie ooooh yes.
dendara100 9 months ago
@odinsvalkrie Yup. Bando Tamasaburo is a very skilled onnagata (女形 - Female Role Specialist, literally either "Female Form" or "Female Way" depending on the kanji used). Females were not allowed to perform kabuki after 1620 something (though they still did in the pleasure quarters under a different name I think). The roles were eventually given to men. Tamasaburo is one of the most prominent onnagata right now. Thus I have grossly over simplified a complex history. Go me.
RainartXIII 9 months ago
@odinsvalkrie Yes; women were forbidden to act on the stage in medieval Japan, just like in Renaissance Europe. (Originally, Japanese brothels would put on plays and dances as advertisement for their girls, and huge fights would break out in the street over which john would get which girl, so the government banned women from the stage in an attempt to curb this violence without actually restricting prostitution, since they made a lot of tax money off of the girls' revenue, lol.)
shakespearerules 9 months ago 3
yeah...great. he walks around, gestures, walks some more...gestures again, then hides behind an umbrella while some helper dudes switch his clothes...riveting stuff!
1johncain 10 months ago
@1johncain It's a lot more then that dude just look at the two comments above you. These guys train from the age of 2 to get to this point and start acting at 5 -_-
YingofDarkness 9 months ago
Tamasaburo is flawless! The feminineness is so graceful and euphoric.
However the greatest Kabuki of all time is a female, Izumo no Okuni, the inventor of Kabuki itself. Surely if women were allowed to play both male and female roles once again they are just as graceful, strong and powerful.
Archangelicque 10 months ago
i like the commentarist a lot! but i wished i could understand it by just looking at it... does the lyrics describe the scene? from some lyrics i could see that you have to understand japanese culture very deeply do fully understand kabuki.. am i wrong?? i wanna appreciate it the right way xD
miakadori 11 months ago
@miakadori
Kabuki is pretty complex. A knowledge of the language is key but even that is not going to help 100%, as the lyrics tend to make illusions to places and words that have greater meaning and signifigance. I'm not sure which one it is but there is a certain bridge that is mentioned and for a foreigner that won't have much meaning, however the bridge has a long history of being a place of seperation and sorrow as many lovers/family seperated there. Kabuki appears simple but is not...
FadedSilkandGhosts 10 months ago
@miakadori
There are also special regards to costumes and colors as well, but I confess I'm not up on that knowledge. I don't really know a whole lot, but I do know that it's a deceptively simple looking art form. There's much more beneath the surface and I suspect you'd need to do a lot of reading/watching to begin to understand it all. The movements and props are also important and like so many other things, they have meanings in what they allude to. It is a pleasurable journey to learn it :)
FadedSilkandGhosts 10 months ago
omg, tamasaburo is an ameazing artist! when i watch his works i have to remember to actually breathe! its .. love!!!
miakadori 11 months ago
Ever seen ballet dancers up close? Same thing. Being in a shape that'd get Bruce Lee's seal of approval rather comes with the territory for pros in these physically demanding Old Skool performance arts...
Also, damn but Tamasaburo is awesome.
On another note, I find it vaguely amusing but by no means surprising that the themes in these are basically the same as in just about any classical Western play, ballet and what have you - chalk one up to the universal human condition.
broadbandislife 11 months ago
@broadbandislife Maybe uneducated people do not understand Kabuki dance's value. Kabuki and dance has 400 years history. Drama and Dance have thousands of costume, colours, figure, and also stories on KKIMONO clothes. Yes, Kabuki has whole arts in its system. Kabuki is art of art.
baron706 8 months ago
For keeping it all down in such slow motion, let alone those back-breaking prawn-backs, every inch of his body must be toned up with muscle. IOW, this unworldly feminine elegance comes materialised only by muscular build-up brought about by masculine commitment to the role. What a revelation this is - HE IS.
この女性美の究極の実現は、筋力の鍛錬と意志の強靭あってこそ。つまり、男性すぎるほどに男性であるからこそ。この矛盾、この深淵。絶句。素晴らしいアップをありがとう。
bbayview 11 months ago 2
i can never get tired of watching this... makes me cry! seriously... i love this kabuki.
Kilaulani 1 year ago 2
信じられないほど美しいですよ。ぜったいいつか日本に行って本当の歌舞伎を見たいと思います。
thephilosopherkartik 1 year ago
I've seen this live performed in Tokyo. It's wonderful.
NineTailsDemonFox 1 year ago 3
玉三郎 さん～～～素晴らしね～～～～～～～～～～～
TakehikoKinomoto 1 year ago
407 years of tradition
watch846 1 year ago
Man, it's a shame we don't have subtitles to know the full story. :( Thanks for putting this up, though! Anything on taikomochi, Tiff?
Dinker27 1 year ago 2
なんか外国人がゲイゲイいってるけど、歌舞伎は元は女性が男装して演劇したのがはじまりなんだよね。それが当時の幕府なんかに風紀が乱れるという理由で禁止されて、仕方なく前髪を落とした成人男性っていう条件がついて今に伝わってきただけだ。
tarou3917 1 year ago
あまりにも美しすぎて、ため息がでるわ・・。
dubud900 1 year ago 3
I guess it was because she just couldn't let go and forgive. It's very sad, yes, but I kind of get it. Vengeance isn't the way, you know....
Thunder00Silence 1 year ago
This is amazing but i don't quite know the plot so well. Could someone give me a summary of the plot? or just a brief storyline?
candyucky 1 year ago
@candyucky
There's a lot of symbolism. The girl loved this man and was betrayed by him, being thrown into depression. She is symbolized by the innocent and pure heron who went through hell and then died.
SuperDuckyWho 1 year ago 2
Someone on the video page of Memoirs of a Geisha- Snow Dance, said it was an interpretation of this dance. Pretty cool cross-reference!
bearguySF 1 year ago
How unfair. Why should a girl whose love is betrayed go to hell and go through such endless torment? I feel this deep in my soul. Not in so beautiful and artistic a fashion, but, the same impending sorrow. My sister was deeply taken with Japanese art and ways. She fell in love with her yoga teacher. She bought a beautiful white kimomo she planned to wear when they married. He married a japanese girl instead. My sister eventually went to a cliff folded her clothes and jumped off.
suiseki1 1 year ago 24
@suiseki1 I don't think she literally went to hell because of something she'd done. I think it's more she went THROUGH hell.
SuperDuckyWho 1 year ago 3
@suiseki1 omg thats horrible!
Deidara188 3 months ago
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! He is an AMAZING DANCER !!!!
tequierocadavezmas 1 year ago 3
he's so great and talented. he fill the stage with beautiful dancing.
luveedoves43 1 year ago 2
Amazing how he can switch attitudes so many times within a single performance!
VTPPGLVR 1 year ago
I was completely memorized by Tamasaburo's performance. All of his movements are so fluid and expressive. Simply beautiful. <3
Thank you for posting this. :)
iarethebatman 1 year ago 5
Dancer of a great skill! Such powerful expression. Also the music was excellent (not to mention the stage, also amazing)! Thank you for uploading this!
TwilightF 1 year ago
Beatiful!
But why is it that she must go to hell she only had her heart broken (beatiful dance by him, i was speechless)
bluepome 1 year ago 6
@bluepome maybe we could see it metaphorically with her heart being broken as the hell she went through. dunno, that's what i like to think anyway :D
cuckoo61 1 year ago
どうしてこの娘が天罰を受けただとう。中心を壊させてもらうことがそんな悪事だろうか？
thephilosopherkartik 2 years ago 3
民度が高い
cozkntt 2 years ago 2
I love the umbrella scene in the spring,
especially the heron maiden enjoys the beauty of cherry blossams, jyst befire the beginning of the torture scene in the hell.
complementa 2 years ago
beautiful i njoyed dis
intwinesoul 2 years ago
que tal este como proyecto Julio?? no me abandones dos veces!!
Bousiewhite 2 years ago
ive seen the prawn bend pose before!in the snow dance in memoirs of a geisha!
samueldejon 2 years ago 2
wow...awesome. makes my muscles hurt though just thinking about doing that 0.0 I wonder what he looks like with out the kimono and hair? :D
queenzoleck 2 years ago 3
if you do a youtube search for "Tamasaburo interview, there are a series of behind-the-scenes clips of him +)
enoki79 2 years ago
美しい歌舞伎ですよ!
thephilosopherkartik 2 years ago 3
Did I mention that I saw him perform this dance and I was there ! If I have a chance to go to Japan again,I would love to see him on the stage again !! He is a beauty.
betweenyouandsky 2 years ago 5
MIND SHATTERING!!!!
Tamasaburo draws you in slowly making it very interesting to just keep on watching and to be mezmorized even more.
TopazBiscuit 2 years ago 12
What does the maiden do to deserve the punishment of hell? I know her broken heart has her as being a crane.
Persphonefallen 2 years ago
when does she do the "mie" technique?
wangman 2 years ago
Tamasaburo plays "mie" using her umbrella at 1:24 and 1:43.
It seems to me that Tamasaburo's "mie" mirrors the eternal beauty of youth in an instant before she enters hell aspiring salvation at the end of the dance.
complementa 2 years ago
at around 3:15
necrofiglio 2 years ago
SO DEEP! !!
MrDrapen 2 years ago 6
SO ITS THIS A GIRL OR A GUY?
jptr3z 2 years ago
guy
thusharayarulz 2 years ago
guy
KakuseishitaSadist 2 years ago
魔法的
mitsuko2046 2 years ago
What do you call this kind of music? Please reply!!
zpotek 2 years ago
It is "naga-uta"., which literally means "long lyric", usually sung to the three-stringed instrument "sha-mi-sen" accompaniments.
hayathologist 2 years ago
but can also include the instruments from Noh theatre...the taiko, ōtsuzumi, kotsuzumi, and the flute.
Joneses65 2 years ago
flute: Shakuhachi
:)
Ken2Kanzeon 2 years ago
thanks (:
Joneses65 2 years ago
Actually shakuhachi is different than this flute. This is a shinobue, it's in the family of flutes called at yokobue (meaning transverse flutes)
starfishyinthesky 2 years ago 3
A shakuhachi is actually different. This is a shinobue which is in the family of flutes called yokobue (meaning transverse flute). Shakuhachi are straight and have a much deeper tone. Also the blowing is different.
starfishyinthesky 2 years ago 4
oh wow....thanks (:
Joneses65 2 years ago
绝美 神脱于形骸
zzj1234x 2 years ago
驚くべきことは確実です..私の愛..それは芸術作品のように..
ungirly18oo 2 years ago 4
Wow it's beautiful!
あの雪は........美しいです!
soulcalibur33 2 years ago 2
Absolutely stunning. I love it!
bunnybunnyxo 2 years ago 4
I love japanese traditional
hizaki9292 2 years ago 7
there's some missing in between this and the first half.
SandUtil 3 years ago
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TopazBiscuit 3 years ago
There is no ground for comparison really, because women, even professional dancers, are not allowed in kabuki...
So, we just simply cannot know.
gninnigebymsidneym 3 years ago
This is really great!
theRod1995 3 years ago 15
i echo all your comments. beautiful to the point that i am totally speechless at the art and the actor for his outstanding performance. i shared 'her' suffering thru his wonderful performance.
emboi72 3 years ago
help me plz... can u help me to make a script with a theme of japanese culture
mwuabz 3 years ago
There are so many fine details that are mastered in Kabuki, it is a true classical art.
zjslwd 3 years ago 11
it is very beautiful and sad dance
Tanjusha88 3 years ago 8
tamasaburo is fucking awesome
whatthechicken 3 years ago
High class art! Magical performance!
FairyDragonchildren 3 years ago
High class art!
Magical performance!
FairyDragonchildren 3 years ago
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TopazBiscuit 3 years ago 3
Sagi musume is the best kabuki play in my opinion, it's just beautiful, and Bando Tamasaburo can create such amazing pictures. Truly a great dance.
GedatsuSama 3 years ago 44
have you seen Tamasaburo in Kagajimishi...he played a beautiful cort lady...then the spirit of a shishimae...amazing, and yet beautiful
Joneses65 2 years ago 3
@GedatsuSama i agree with you completely!!! ive watched this a number of times, along with other pieces, but i always come back to this one, its just so...elegant, beautiful, mesmorizing, and i looove Tamasaburo's performance, he is AH MAAA ZING!!!
Fanpire16 8 months ago
extremely beautiful! thank u so much for uploading!
lovingfuji 3 years ago 2
His face is wonderfully expressive. This is beautiful.
IllaScriptor 3 years ago
Where can I buy that DVD?
pandamin1 3 years ago
美しい歌舞伎^^
JOKAKEN 3 years ago
╭╮ ╭╮ ╭╮ ││ ││ │└╮
╭┴┴—┴Ⅲ╮～└—╯
│ ﹋ ﹋ │ ╭—————————╮
│ ∩ ∩ │ ╭╮│nice performance
│ ▽ │Ｏ╰╯╰—————————╯
╰—ｍ∞ｍ—╯
JOKAKEN 3 years ago
He is beautiful! ^^
If I were a man-wow.
snoozle99 3 years ago 2
OMG...
i cried...
poor birdie died...
=sob=
i loved this kabuki...
i'm bragging about it to my friends and family everytime...
it's great...
thanks for uploading this...
hope i get to see more of his kabuki...
Kilaulani 3 years ago
Unbelievably beautiful. Thank you so much for uploading! =)
ElementoDisidente 3 years ago 2
W-wow.
Chilling.
Tiramees 3 years ago 6
Are Kabuki dancers really men? It's seems like men are not that graceful....
danwel66 3 years ago
yes...kabuki actors are always men :-)
xxSterretjeXxx 3 years ago 7
sometimes are women but it's worst than man (sometimes) :)
fuujiou 3 years ago
Yes, but there's a reason to that, once women acted in the called okuni kabuki, but people started seeing it for the actresses's beauty, so the government forbade it.
GedatsuSama 3 years ago 9
onna kabuki, kabuki for women
JPandCo 3 years ago
really ? did hey do that in the past?
Firepixy 2 years ago
th-that's a GUY!
AngelicKennedy 3 years ago
And such a guy! He is wonderful.
gurruto 3 years ago 27
I have always felt Kabuki has a very mysterious element to it, the music only adds to the effect.
shinra18 3 years ago 8
Its kindov amazing how graceful men can be.
chibimaru64 3 years ago 9
I rally like her kimono
1hotsummernight 3 years ago
Only that Tamasaburo is a MAN.
antisocialist87 3 years ago 5
Technically, the comment is right. It is the character's kimono, not the performer's kimono.
So it's really the Heron Maiden's kimono...a "her".
gninnigebymsidneym 3 years ago
Maybe they meant hte character. xD But yes, traditional kabuki actors are all men.
Tiramees 3 years ago
A lot of thanks from Mexico City- please post more things like these traditional music, kabuki, noh,
enagyb 3 years ago 13
ojala algun día nos visite
JPandCo 3 years ago
Those stingy persons gave only 4 stars!
impmonte 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing this!
SnotKrush 3 years ago 3
Male ballerinas are always kinda creepy, but this manages to transcend that, somewhat. It's nice.
CaptPoco 3 years ago 5
i love this kind of performances, i wish it could be more popular around the world! it is jus beautiful.
mendoccina 3 years ago 7
amazing..........
nathair1977 3 years ago
Excellent and beautiful performance
hhanyu 3 years ago 3
The greatest of the great modern Kabuki players.
How beautiful, the snow fall.
This rain of pleasure
I love him. No longer.
phaedra108 3 years ago 6
Amazing! This is by far one of my favorite kabuki plays! I even have a woodblock print about it!
silentblade007 3 years ago 2
extremely beautiful masterpiece of art
slok2002 4 years ago 4
very good. i liked it :)
Anette006 4 years ago
100 / 100 :)
sanchezdot 4 years ago 4
This is wonderful^^
gingerweasley5 4 years ago
ty so much for uploading this. Wonderful art
macarenasb 4 years ago 2
Tamasaburo will be another of the names revered in this wonderful caleidoscope,that is the Great Arts in different Cultures! Delicate and moving! tiffenakou has been spoiling us with these postings!
Zegismondo 4 years ago 4
I am glad you enjoy those videos!
tiffenakou 4 years ago
Thank you very much, to discover your videos is like finding a Garden of delights!
Zegismondo 4 years ago 3
I guess you should thank Tamasaburo instead :-) All the delights are from him.
tiffenakou 4 years ago
I think that goes without saying! (:-D)
But, you were the messenger, your videos carried the Divine. BTW I found out (Google)Tamasaburo is an inhereted level (Title) of perfection All this is fascinating! Thanks
Zegismondo 4 years ago
"A garden of delights". I like that description.
cscentrlvideos 4 years ago
we should perserve culture...this is art.
most dumb people would not understand it anyway.
octavian88888888 4 years ago 2
but it is so worth it for those that do...
vocalpianist 4 years ago
the kimono is so beautiful, I literally JUST discovered this beautiful art form a few days ago. where can I find out more baout it?
vocalpianist 4 years ago
This is my first. ^_^ My Japanese teacher emailed us all these videos. Now I want more. Tamasaburo is very skilled with the gestures and the... spasms. Very good acting and dancing.
Argh, I want to do it, too! Even if I'm female... ah well, in the meantime, I'll do ballet, even if that's not the same thing. xD
Steeple333 4 years ago 4
I guess the closest thing to this would be becoming a Geisha (that's waht I want to do anyways *^-^*) but Kabuki is definatley better :)
thecharlotteness 3 years ago
Geisha is mostly entertaining at parties (with music, dance, conversation, games). You don't have to be a geisha or a kabuki actor to do nihon-buyo (japanese dance). Making a living out of teaching it seems *much* more accessible for a foreigner than trying to be a geisha...
alestane 2 years ago 3
The score is equally amazing...the flute is so expressive
jtione 4 years ago
despite memoirs of a geisha it's a shame that few still appreciate this art
Natashaaaaaaaa 4 years ago
Beautiful ...
riosan79 4 years ago
とても解説が邪魔
HORIOKA55 4 years ago
death of swan?
haha
joyceshang 4 years ago
I didn't expect the early reference to Buddhism to be elaborated on like that!
andwhatfire 4 years ago
looks great.
BugsNPorky 4 years ago
Wow! That was deeply moving!
Thanks for posting.
goreyed 4 years ago
Explanatory unnecessary
HORIOKA55 4 years ago
Poor girl!
Cervallon 4 years ago
me gusto muchisimo
caicaivilu37 4 years ago
caicaivilu37. bellisimo
caicaivilu37 4 years ago
she is a men thats cool
arumako25 4 years ago
fabulous
jl838 4 years ago 2
I'm sitting here in goosebumps and tears; that was the most beautiful dance I have ever seen.
UreMezzo 4 years ago 4
I see a similarity between this type of dance and some of the traditional forms of Indian dance. There is a feeling in each style of the dance consisting of a series of frame by frame picture perfect poses set to music. Every aspect of the performance from the cahracters demeanor, to their physical posture, facial expression and costume, down to the smallest details combines with the music (and, where present scenery) to create a comprehensive image and to evoke an exact mood.
MENCADO 4 years ago 5