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Jan 28, 1350
Noh
Kan'ami and his son Zeami transformed sarugaku (short dances and skits with impersonations and plays on words) into Noh -
Kabuki
Kabuki started when a woman named Izumo no Okumi created a new style of dance and began performing it -
Kabuki- 1603-1629
Women started performing, the dances were suggestive and many prostitutes began performing Kabuki to attract customers -
Kabuki
Women are banned from performing Kabuki -
Kabuki: 1629-1652
Young male dancers began performing but the prostitution didn't stop -
Kabuki
Young males are banned from performing Kabuki -
Banraku
Banraku is created when Takemoto Gidayu sets up his own theater in Osaka -
Bunraku
Gidayu left his theater and started working with Chikamatsu Monzaemon -
Bunraku
Competition between Takemoto-za and Toyotake-za led to the high level of art in Banraku -
Bunraku
The first time that three puppeteers were used to move the head and right arm, left arm, and both feet, in the play Kuzo no ha -
Noh: 1603-1868
During the Edo Period Noh was incorporated into Samurai training -
Bunraku
Bunraku began to thrive in Edo -
Kabuki: 1673-1841
During the Golden Age Kabuki really hit its peak. The dances started to have a pretty formal structure and more people started to watch. -
Bunraku: 1750-1770
Decline with the death of Namiki, Takeda and other popular narrators -
Bunraku
Bunraku gets some glory when a new playwrite, Chikamatsu Hanjii , appears -
Bunraku
Ehon Taikoki is called the last Bunraku classic -
Noh
After the Meiji Restoration the Noh was almost extinct -
Kabuki: World War ll
Theaters are destroyed and occupying forces of Japan place a ban on Kabuki -
Kabuki
The ban ended -
Bunraku
The National Theater in Tokyo gave Banruku a permanent home -
Bunraku
The National Theater in Tokyo moved to Osaka and became the National Bunraku Theater -
Noh
Finally Noh gained worldwide recognition