1. 16:42 18th Ago 2012

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    A Geiko dressed as Princess Yaegaki (1880) “In the Kabuki dance “Kitsune-bi” (Fox-fires), Princess Yaegaki saves her lover by following magical fox-fires across a frozen lake to deliver a treasured battle helmet. Here she holds the fantastic horned helmet with its mane of flowing white hair. Her obi (sash) is decorated with Gunbai Uchiwa (Japanese War Fans) as a reference to an earlier scene in the play where Takeda Shingen uses a Gunbai to defend himself. The dance comes from the final scene of Act IV of the Kabuki play, “Honchō Nijūshikō” (Twenty-four examples of filial piety), one of the Confucian classics, although it is frequently performed as an independent item.” (source)

    A Geiko dressed as Princess Yaegaki (1880)

    “In the Kabuki dance “Kitsune-bi” (Fox-fires), Princess Yaegaki saves her lover by following magical fox-fires across a frozen lake to deliver a treasured battle helmet. Here she holds the fantastic horned helmet with its mane of flowing white hair. Her obi (sash) is decorated with Gunbai Uchiwa (Japanese War Fans) as a reference to an earlier scene in the play where Takeda Shingen uses a Gunbai to defend himself.

    The dance comes from the final scene of Act IV of the Kabuki play, “Honchō Nijūshikō” (Twenty-four examples of filial piety), one of the Confucian classics, although it is frequently performed as an independent item.” (source)

     
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