Kamisanwarada's Kabuki stage performance

Kamisanwarada's Kabuki stage performance

Event Overview

The performance takes place in November once a year on a Kabuki stage built in the second year of Bunsei 2 (1819) during the late Edo period. Local kabuki preservation associations and elementary school kabuki clubs will develop performances. The stage used for the performance is designated as an important tangible folk property of the country, and has a plurality of distinctive gimmicks for stage production. It has unique structures such as the "gando return", which makes the stage wider by toppling a plate like a shutter horizontally, the stage's rotating device "Pillar-standing rotary mechanism", and the "Serihiki mechanism", which raises and lowers two seri from both the ceiling and the abyss.

Info

  • Event Location:   
  • Kabuki stage of Kamisanhara
  • Address:   
  • 269-1 Kamisanharada, Akagi-cho, Shibakawa, Gunma
  • Public Transportation:   
JR Shibakawa Station → Bus 11 minutes, bus stop: Get off the stage, walk on foot
  • Car Access:   
5.5km10 minutes from Ikaho IC on Kanetsu-do via National Route 17/353
  • Phone Number:   
  • 0279-52-2102 (Department of Cultural Property Protection, Department of Education, Shibakawa City)
  • Parking Number:   
200 units/free

Event Period

  • November 8, 2025 (Saturday)
*In case of bad weather, it will be postponed to November 9 (Sunday).

Price

Free

Event Category

Traditional performing arts, dance, theater, stage

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