"Geishas of Edo: The Prototype of Modern Actresses" Harushige Akasaka Price: ¥1012 #HarushigeAkasaka #Harushige_Akasaka #Books #Art/General From Okuni of Izumo to actresses of the Meiji era! The establishment and rise and fall of unknown female performing arts ◆Content Introduction◆ Most modern Japanese people think that there were no female performers in the Edo period. However, that is incorrect; there were female performers in the Edo period as well. For example, Okuni of Izumo, the pleasure-quarters kabuki that imitated her kabuki dance, odori-ko (female dancers), and geishas as their successors. The lineage of female performers in Edo continued without interruption and was passed on to the actresses of the Meiji era. The distant cause of the misunderstanding that "there were no female performers" seems to lie in the still-prevailing trend of male chauvinism. Although there was a world rich in shadows, history textbooks rarely mention it. This book describes the establishment and rise and fall of female performing arts in the Edo period. ◆Table of Contents◆ Prologue: Female Performers of the Edo Period Chapter I: The Birth of Odori-ko Chapter II: The Popularization of Kabuki Dance and Music Chapter III: From Odori-ko to Geisha Chapter IV: Courtesan Geisha of Yoshiwara Chapter V: The Rise and Fall of Geisha Epilogue: International Actresses of the Early Meiji Era"