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- Title
Urban Style, Sexuality, Resistance, and Refinement in the Japanese Dance Sukeroku.
- Authors
Keister, Jay
- Abstract
The entrance dance by the character Sukeroku is a highlight of Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura, a kabuki play that has been a mainstay on the Japanese stage since the early eighteenth century. Analysis of this dance that features one of Japan's most iconic stage persona demonstrates the power of the presentational aspects of kabuki-dance, music, and costume-to symbolically express iki ("chic refinement"), the predominant aesthetic style of Edo era popular culture. As the foremost example of iki in a male character, Sukeroku displays in this dance the complexity of this aesthetic as both an expression of fashionable style on the surface and, at a more hidden level, a symbolic expression of resistance by commoners who sought to oppose the samurai ruling class.
- Subjects
JAPAN; KABUKI plays -- History &; criticism; SUKEROKU Yukari no Edo Zakura (Theatrical production); 18TH century drama; COSTUME -- History; COSTUME; JAPANESE dance; HISTORY; TOKUGAWA Period, Japan, 1600-1868
- Publication
Asian Theatre Journal, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0742-5457
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/atj.0.0047