Minami-za
Sign in to saveis the primary kabuki theatre in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded in 1610 as . The current building, with a 1,086 seat capacity, was built in 1929.
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- Instance of
- theatre building
- Named after
- south
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Higashiyama-ku
- Body of water
- Kamo River
- Operator
- Shochiku
- Official website
- www.kabukiweb.net/theatres/minamiza
- Image
- Minami-za Theatre, Kyoto (Jan 2020).jpg
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- Minami-za
- maximum capacity
- 1086
- located on street
- Shijō Street
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is the primary kabuki theatre in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded in 1610 as . The current building, with a 1,086 seat capacity, was built in 1929.
==History== The Minami-za is one of the earliest of the seven officially-licensed kabuki theatres built in the early Edo period (1615–1623) in the Shijo Kawara area in Kyoto; the theatre pre-dates those of Tokyo and Osaka. The current Minami-za theatre was built in 1929 in the architectural style of the Momoyama period, with a gabled roof and a traditional turret marking the official approval of the government. In 1991, after the end of the Shōwa period, the interior was drastically refurbished and modern stage mechanism was installed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Minami-za” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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