Kaomise

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December Program at the Minamiza Theatre: Matinee (December 2025)

The kaomise at Kyoto's Minamiza Theatre: watching the maneki signboards go up, the theatre's one-of-a-kind chikuma decorations, a MOYNAT stage curtain, Nizaemon's Shunkan, and a mad interval dash for nishin soba.
2025.12.10
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Kabuki

The Kaomise Maneki Boards at the Minamiza Theatre (December 2024)

No tickets for me this year, but just seeing the maneki boards up at the Minamiza was enough to make me giggle. A mini report on the sign that winter has come to Kyoto.
2024.12.01
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Kaomise at Kyoto’s Minamiza Theatre: Evening Program (December 2023)

The Evening Show of the Minamiza kaomise celebrating Ichikawa Danjuro XIII's name succession: Nizaemon's sublime Yuranosuke, a Stage Announcement that nearly made me cry, and the whole audience shouting "Naritaya!" together.
2023.12.10
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Kabuki

Kaomise at Kyoto’s Minamiza Theatre: Matinee (December 2023)

A solo matinee at the Minamiza in Kyoto during the December 2023 Kaomise: Somegoro as Yogoro, the stage debut of Shinnosuke VIII, and a curtain by Takashi Murakami.
2023.12.09
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