Oh it looks like she is going to dance "shiokumi" 汐汲. One of my senpai, she danced it this past year. To dance with the water buckets is really pretty!
Why do the bottom layers (first layers) have to be so neat, measured, and perfectly done? They're being covered up by all the layers on top. No one's going to see them!!! If that were me, I'd put on the very top layer and leave.
Great video! The amount of layers involved is staggering, I can only imagine the skill involved in dancing in such a cumbersome costume. And I never knew they sewed the collar down! That makes so much sense, I can't believe I'd never seen it mentioned before.
You are right it it is Kabuki. This one, though, is Nihon Buyo (traditional Japanese dance) stemming from Kabuki (a combination of "ka" as song, "bu" as dance and "ki" as story). The person dressed up in this movie is a woman, I can tell. Obviously, Nihon Buyo is a kind of Kabuki "spin off" and there have been traditionally female dancers professionally doing it in Japan.
@Pixiuu This is NOT Bando Tamasaburo V. This person in this video is young, and Bando Tamasaburo V is now 72 yrs old (in 2023). This video was uploaded 14 yrs ago, so Tamasaburo would've been 58 yrs old. Also, this person's face is completely different, & height is shorter.
