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Nakamura-za
中村座
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Address
| Nakahashi ,
Nihonbashi
Tokyo
Japan
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Type
| Kabuki theater
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Opened
| 21 November 1624
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Closed
| 22 January 1893
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Years active
| 269
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Nakamura-za
(
中村座
)
was one of the three main
kabuki
theatres of
Edo
alongside the
Morita-za
and
Ichimura-za
.
[1]
History
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edit
]
It was founded in 1624 by
Nakamura Kanzabur?
1st. The Nakamura-za relocated to the new capital
Tokyo
in 1868 and reopened under Nakamura Kanzabur? I's last direct descendant Nakamura Kanzaburo XIII (1828?1895) as
zamoto
.
[2]
It was later also called the
Miyako-za
(
都座
).
[3]
A real-size replica of the Nakamura-za is located at the
Edo-Tokyo Museum
.
References
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- ^
Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader
? Page 205 Nancy G. Hume ? 1995 "While the Nakamura-za in Edo provides a detailed illustration of the physical design of a theater ... no two were identical. Theaters were, moreover, periodically rebuilt, for fires frequently ravaged Edo."
- ^
Kabuki Plays on Stage: Restoration and Reform, 1872?1905
? Page 3 James R. Brandon, Samuel L. Leiter ? 2003 "dwindled to the point that the Nakamura-za was dark for fifty-eight days and the Ichimura-za for thirty-eight. That autumn, in a display of political awareness, the Morita-za and the Nakamura-za joined forces to stage the prophetically titled Dedication of Loyalty to the Eastern Capital (Azuma no Miyako Chushin Yurai), with "eastern capital" being ...Tokyo" "In Tokyo the three licensed theatres continued without change"
- ^
Tsuji, Nobuo, ed. (1985).
??の謎と鍵
.
Sharaku
浮世?八華. 4, ??
. Ukiyo-e hakka (in Japanese). Vol. 4. Heibonsha. p. 82.
ISBN
4-582-66204-8
.
External links
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Media related to
Nakamura-za
at Wikimedia Commons