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Surely Kabuki is very famous all over the world, but NI-HON BU-YO-O (Japanese Dance or Japanese Traditional Dance) is not so. But performers of Kabuki are hereditary, so usually Japanese can only appreciate it. The other hand, we can be taught and play Japanese Dance.

Especially, in Japanese Dance, one people can play male and female part.

First of all, let's read the explanation from "The KABUKI theatre" by Earle Ernst.

"The use of the word 'dance' to describe KABUKI movement is perhaps misleading, for there is little about it that resembles the Western forms suggested by the word. In general Western dance, whether square dancing, tap dancing, ballet, or folk dancing, has tended to express itself in more or less abstract movement, in movement whose source in the movement of real life is not immediately evident: and the 'ideas' expressed in it, if they exist at all, are general rather than specific. Western dance may 'tell a story,' but does so in the main by the cumulative effect of a series of nonspecific movements."

Gradually I will add on the information.

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