The Ichimura-za (市村座) was a major kabuki theatre in the Japanese capital of Edo (later, Tokyo), for much of the Edo period, and into the 20th century...

Although kabuki was performed widely across Japan, the Nakamura-za, Ichimura-za and Kawarazaki-za theatres became the most widely known and popular kabuki theatres...

Shinsengumi Toshikazu Ichimura (born 1941), Japanese aikidoka Ichimura Uzaemon XI (十一代目市村羽左衛門, 1791–1820), Japanese kabuki theater owner Ichimura-za (市村座), a former...

name Ichimura Uzaemon XIV in a traditional actor naming ceremony called a shūmei. He became the zamoto (manager, troupe head) of the Ichimura-za. In November...

Nakamura-za (中村座) was one of the three main kabuki theatres of Edo alongside the Morita-za and Ichimura-za. It was founded in 1624 by Nakamura Kanzaburō...

Tokyo), and became a hit in the neighborhood, where the Nakamura-za and Ichimura-za once stood. The first eatery to sell it as a business is claimed to...

(play). In the Kaei period (1848–1854), it was first performed in Nakamura-za as Hana Sagano Nekoma Ishibumi Shi (史). The "Sagano" in the title is a place...

better portray them on stage. He performed countless times at the Ichimura-za and Kabuki-za (which opened in 1889) over the course of his career. Kikugorō...

Ichimura Uzaemon XI (十一代目市村羽左衛門, Jūichi-daime Ichimura Uzaemon) (1791-11 July 1820) was a zamoto (theatre owner-manager) of the Ichimura-za kabuki theatre...

Year day, 4th year of Ansei (February, 1857) at the first play at Yedo Ichimura-za, Nezumi komon haruno shingata (鼠小紋東君新形), drawn by Utagawa Toyokuni III...

The July 1858 production of Shibaraku at the Ichimura-za theatre in Edo. Triptych woodblock print by Utagawa Toyokuni III....

latest son of the hereditary owners, such as at the Nakamura-za, Morita-za and Ichimura-za. Japan Quarterly, 1969, p. 302 (Asahi Shinbunsha) v t e v t...

kabuki plays. Written by Kawatake Mokuami, it first premiered at the Ichimura-za in Edo in March 1862. The play is frequently known by a number of other...

right of the audience. The hanamichi was first used in 1668 in the Kawarazaki-za, in the form of a simple wooden plank that reached from the centre of the...

1714, there were three major theaters around Sakaicho, Ichimura-za, Morita-za, and Nakamura-za. As it became mainstream by the early 17th century, for...

Kotobuki at the Nakamura-za in Edo. Until 1770, his stage name was Matsumoto Kōshirō (III). In 1760, the Nakamura-za and Ichimura-za theaters were destroyed...

moved to the Kawarazaki-za, along with Hanshirō, Kōshirō, and Seki Sanjūrō II. He performed primarily there, and at the Ichimura-za, for the next several...

Shibai Ukie ("A Scene from a Play") by Masanobu Okumura (1686–1764), depicting Edo Ichimura-za theater in the early 1740s...

Kawarasaki-za and much of the city of Edo was destroyed in the Ansei earthquake. Now known as Kawarasaki Gonjūrō I, the actor began performing at the Ichimura-za...

1746 at the Takemoto-za in Osaka, debuting on the kabuki stage the following month in Kyoto. The Edo debut was held at the Ichimura-za the following March...

and in opposition to Fujita Yoshiji's monopoly on the Ichimura-za, became active at the Nakamura-za, together with Nakamura Fujiro 1st (1719–86), receiving...

kabuki play in seven acts by Kawatake Mokuami that premièred at the Ichimura-za theatre in Edo during the New Year 1860. It is popularly known as Sannin...

write haiku and to take a poetry name (haimyō). While performing at the Ichimura-za on 24 March 1704, Danjūrō was stabbed and killed in his dressing room...

and a myriad of roles, both male and female, at the Morita-za, Nakamura-za, and Ichimura-za theatres. He came to be known for his dancing, and in particular...

the kabuki world, at least seven generations, to Onoe Kikugorō III and Ichimura Uzaemon XI, who performed in the early 19th century. As is the case with...

after being born, being introduced as Ichikawa Shinnosuke II at the Ichimura-za's kaomise performance, in which the troupe for the following year is introduced...

Danjūrō Ichikawa IV as Shirabyōshi Hanakjo in the April 1884 Tokyo Ichimura-za production of Chinzei Hachirō Eiketsu Monogatari, Act II Shunshoku Ninin...

entered retirement in September 1847, after a final performance at the Ichimura-za, in a program called "Onoe Baiju Ichidai Banashi" after him. In his retirement...

biological father, Tachibanaya Jisuke, was an accounting manager of the Ichimura-za theatre; he was adopted at a very young age by the actor Bandō Mitsugorō...

Taxi: In the Woods (Japanese: オッドタクシー イン・ザ・ウッズ, Hepburn: Oddo Takushī In za Uzzu) is a 2022 Japanese animated mystery film directed by Baku Kinoshita...