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The Nishikawa School of traditional Japanese dance. Gives background information, its founding, and history.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/NAHKI/senwaka-kai/
Informing people around the world about Japanese performing arts, this site maintains an archive of performing company profiles.
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Performing Arts Network Japan Okada is a playwright who has won acclaim for the language in his plays that has been described as 8220;super-real verbal Japanese” for the way the characters speak in abbreviated sentences that are little more than a succession of conjunctions...Short article and history on the original male geisha of Japan.
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi...ichi/themestream/taikomochi.html
Photos, history, and descriptions of several traditional Japanese puppets.
http://www.cjn.or.jp/karakuri/