The Senbonza theater was a theater in
Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most pop ...
, in the late 19th century. Actor
Onoe Matsunosuke worked there near the start of his career in 1889,
at which time
Shōzō Makino was the manager of the theater
was directing there.
The
Yokota Shōkai film importation company often screened foreign films at the theater, which had originally been the home of a small touring
kabuki
is a classical form of Theatre of Japan, Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with Japanese traditional dance, traditional dance. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily stylised performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costumes ...
group.
References
19th-century theatre
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