| Kabuki-za
in Ginza is the principal theater in Tokyo for the traditional kabuki drama
form. It opened in 1889, and is one of the city's finest extant examples
of Meiji-era construction using Western materials in traditional Japanese
architectural styles. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1921, and
was uncompleted when the 1923 Kanto earthquake struck. It was rebuilt in
a baroque Japanese revivalist style, meant to evoke the Japanese castles
of the 16th century; The theater was again destroyed in the Allied bombing
during World War II. It was rebuilt once again, as a reconstruction of
the 1924 structure, and today remains one of Tokyo's more dramatic and
traditional buildings. |
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