Kabuki was more intriguing than I thought.  Three different plays from 3 distinct eras (pre-Edo, Edo, and modern).  The characters involved included a head samurai , enchanted princesses disguised as geisha, and dancing dead people.  It's a bit hard to imagine what kabuki is without seeing it, and I'm not really helping the issue as taking photos aren't allowed in the theatre.  But the Kabuki-za shure is pretty!

One comment made throughout the English translation guide during the show was how each kabuki movement was "highly stylized."  The fight scenes were especially fitting of this description; the protagonist with "fight" through 2 parallel ranks of fighters, with all the fighters doing flips in the air and doing their "dead" pose (their legs crossed in air w/their backs on the floor, making a big "X") when defeated by the protagonist.  Most impressive, though, were how a group of samurai assistants wore leggings that resemble sumo loincloths, so as to look like they're wearing wedgie pants.

I wanted a pair, but there were none to be found at the gift shop.
 
 

Lunch
Mackerel with rice, snow peas, and Japanese radish.

Dinner
Sushi, oysters, and other food we ordered from the restaurant with the help from the 2 salarymen
sitting next to us at the sushi bar, 'cuz we couldn't read the non-Gaijin menu.  The Gaijin menu
was way sad, with the only thing on it being sushi and barbecue, when the Japanese in the
restaurant were all sorts of good, weird shit.
 
 

Personals

American male, 32, seeking Japanese women w/herpes, for fun times.

French man in Tokyo, I want to learn Japanese with a beautiful babe.  Lets go to nice french restaurants.

I made Tony stand in front of this billboard.  He likes it, though. Shibuya train station.

The Kabuki-za.  Looks even more majestic as the first thing you see walking out of the adjacent subway station.

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