It was originally constructed in 1835, and is the oldest kabuki theatre in Japan.

Originally, a new kabuki theater was scheduled to be erected there, hence the name.

The first kabuki theater was built in on this site in 1889.

In the kabuki theatre the word henge has the technical sense of costume change.

Yet there is so little transparency that it seems like kabuki theater.

The Kabuki-za, located several blocks away, is the chief kabuki theatre in the world.

We took something too from the onnagata - the male actors in the kabuki theatre who play the female roles.

In the early-19th century even the kabuki theaters were located here.

In both politics and kabuki theater, she adds, the key roles are still "passed down from men to their sons."

The district's name comes from late-1940s plans to build a kabuki theater: although the theater was never built, the name stuck.