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Keren (kabuki)

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Often translated as "playing to the gallery," many drama enthusiasts consider these sorts of adaptations to be demeaning to the art of kabuki. According to one scholar, Ichikawa Ennosuke, "Rapid 'trick' appearances and disappearances of the actor are relatively few and are held in low esteem by the
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Makes use of strings to make an actor fly out over the audience, often up into the third floor of the theater. For obvious reasons, this would come into use when portraying various sorts of flying creatures such as ghosts, spirits, or the bird-like
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Is used to effect quick changes of costume for an actor while he remains on stage. Sometimes this will be done with strings which pull off or pull apart a top layer of costume to reveal another costume underneath. In a technique called
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appear on stage and pull these threads, allowing this outer costume layer to come off quite quickly and easily. This might also be accomplished even more simply by having the actor pull his top layer off or apart himself.
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that have been commonly employed in kabuki since the middle of the eighteenth century. These traps raise and lower actors or sets to the stage.
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when they are being lowered. This technique is often used for dramatic effect of having an entire scene rise up to appear onstage.
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is used for a number of characters who remove disguises to reveal their true identity, and for
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Refers to a number of different special effects involving water.
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Refers to the dramatic destruction of on-stage edifices.
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