 Last additions - Eirakukan Theater 永楽館 |
Other stairway.Dec 25, 2018
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Basement passage to the other end of the theater.Dec 25, 2018
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Stage wheels on a rail.Dec 25, 2018
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They turn the rotating stage by hand.Dec 25, 2018
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You can also go underneath the stage and see the revolving stage. It's rotated by hand. Wow neat, how often can you see something like this?Dec 25, 2018
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Go downstairs to the basement too.Dec 25, 2018
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Dressing room.Dec 25, 2018
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Bathtub for actors.Dec 25, 2018
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Dressing room.Dec 25, 2018
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Dressing room.Dec 25, 2018
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Dressing room.Dec 25, 2018
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Backstage has the dressing rooms for actors. Normally hidden by a curtain.Dec 25, 2018
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Inside a booth for instrument players.Dec 25, 2018
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Booth for instrument players.Dec 25, 2018
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Stage curtains.Dec 25, 2018
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View from the stage.Dec 25, 2018
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Rotating kabuki stage.Dec 25, 2018
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The revolving stage (mawari-butai). Above the stage in the back are dressing rooms for the performers. Normally hidden by a curtain.Dec 25, 2018
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Eirakukan's rotating kabuki stage.Dec 25, 2018
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Very retro.Dec 25, 2018
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Advertising posters on the walls.Dec 25, 2018
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Side seats.Dec 25, 2018
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Stage as seen from the back row.Dec 25, 2018
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Eirakukan Theater in Izushi, Toyooka, Hyogo.Dec 25, 2018
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The hanamichi on the left. You can walk on it too.Dec 25, 2018
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The hanamichi on the left. You can walk on it too and feel like a kabuki actor...Dec 25, 2018
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Inside Eirakukan. You can freely tour inside the theater. Very impressive and rare glimpse of a Meiji Period theater. That's the hanamichi on the left. You can walk on it too.Dec 25, 2018
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Theater lobby.Dec 25, 2018
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Theater lobby.Dec 25, 2018
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You have to take off your shoes.Dec 25, 2018
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Theater entrance on the side. The theater is a short walk from the Izushi bus stop and Izushi Castle.Dec 25, 2018
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The theater's original front entrance that is not used anymore because of the road right in front. They now use a side entrance.Dec 25, 2018
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The theater is in Izushi's National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).Dec 25, 2018
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Izushi also has Eirakukan (永楽館), the Kansai Region's oldest kabuki theater built in 1901. It closed in 1964 due to the spread of television and other diversions.Years later, the theater was renovated and reopened in 2008. The theater puts on performances occasionally. Dec 25, 2018
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Eirakukan (永楽館), the Kansai Region's oldest kabuki theater built in 1901. Toward the left was the theater's front entrance that is not used anymore because of the road right in front. They now use a side entrance.Dec 25, 2018
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