Kabuki Theatre

UNESCO: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2008 URL: Description: Kabuki is a Japanese traditional theatre form, which originated in the Edo period at the beginning of the seventeenth century and was particularly popular among townspeople. Originally, both men and women acted in Kabuki plays, but eventually only male actors performed the plays: a tradition that has remained to the present day. Male actors specialized in wom