Year-end annual “Make-up” in front of face-to-face entertainment, Minamiza, November 25, 15:16
In front of the annual end-of-year performance at the South Theater in Kyoto, there was a “make-up” with a board with the names of Kabuki actors on stage.
“Manekijo” is a traditional event that has been held since the Edo period, with a board called “Maneki” written in front of Minamiza in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, where the names of Kabuki actors appearing in the face-seeing performance are written.
On the 25th, from 9:00 am, the workers climbed the foothold and raised the “maneki” of the human national treasure Hitoshi Kataoka.
Maneki, which is 1.8 meters long and 30 centimeters wide, is written in a thick and rounded unique font, and those who visited for a tour took 46 photographs of all of them. It was.
After this, the people involved in the theater prayed for the success of the performance with the pure salt.
A woman in her 80s who visited there said, “I have been in Minamiza for over 50 years and I am looking forward to seeing it up every year.”
“Mr. Masaya Ichimura, director of“ Shochiku ”Kansai Theater Room, said,“ It is the first year of Rewa and it is the first commemorative year.
Kotomi's “Family Show” will be held from 30th of this month to 26th of next month.