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坂東玉三郎 「藤娘」 Tamasaburo "Wisteria Maiden" part 1

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Uploaded by on Nov 7, 2006

The dance "Fuji Musume" (Wisteria Maiden)

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  • does anyone know is Tamasaburo is still performing?

  • @myRincon yes, he is still performing.

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  • He's a man, women were not allowed to be actress at the past in Japan, so men did it... and it became a tradition.

    * I am not Japanese but I read it... haha

  • Wonderful dance!!,i`m Venezuelan, but i love the Japanese culture...Magic...

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  • 一瞬一瞬が一枚の絵のようです。

    美しい・・・。

  • That slow motion effect of his movement is astonishingly beautiful and hypnotic!

  • 8:19 I love when the men yell in the background

  • Absolutely lovely.

  • My god. I just blogged about kabuki, and him, for an international magazine today online. Christ. Bucket list need.

  • 本当に男か?

  • i love how the sleeves on the kimonos have wisterias on them~ so pretty <3

  • i just saw his performance today....speechless.

  • can somebody tell me when this was filmed

  • This is just my guess but maybe it has something to do with Tamasaburo III's unexpected death in New York in 1905. She died of an undiagnosed heart disease at age 22 while she was staying in NY studying Broadway theater. (And yes, Tamasaburo III was a woman -- one of the only a handful of female actresses who succeeded such traditional Kabuki name.) After her, her nephew became Tamasaburo IV (and later Morita Kanya XIV), and then his adopted son is the Tamasaburo V, the one in question.

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