Kabuki Dancer

✍ Scribed by Sawako Ariyoshi

• Book ID: 113054784
• Publisher: Kodansha International
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 300 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 4770017839

✦ Synopsis

In Kabuki Dancer, Sawako Ariyoshi retells the story of Okuni, the legendary temple dancer who first performed among jugglers and freak shows on a stage along the riverbank in the heart of the imperial city of Kyoto. Blending the rhythms and movements of religious festivals with the words of popular love songs, she and her troupe became sensations. Their affairs and rivalries, infatuations and jealousies, were transformed into the very fabric of their performance, as it began its evolution into the classic drama of today. Against a backdrop of civil war, dynastic conflict, and social turmoil, Okuni and her companions and lovers, together with their audience of artisans, merchants, and aristocrats, struggled to survive the birth pangs of a glorious—yet sometimes deadly—new age.