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Kabuki theatre

A form of Japanese theatre where highly stylized physical movement, elaborate costumes, and exaggerated expressions create characters and narratives—the opposite of naturalism. Kabuki's power lies in its formal artificiality, where every gesture is readable and meaning emerges from precise, repeated, inherited forms.

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