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| Kabuki is one of Japan's traditional stage arts and is said to have originated in the seventeenth century when it was first performed by the female dancer Izumo-no-Okuni and her troupe in Kyoto. Today Kabuki is the most popular of the traditional styles of Japanese drama and was inscribed one of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. |
