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