caa a22 4500 38810970X CHVBK 20180307125350.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300020241 doi S0307883300020241 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300020241 Haruo Suwa Suwa Haruo isProfessor of Theatre Studies at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. The Birth of the Hanamichi [Elektronische Daten] [Suwa Haruo] Of all the various features associated with the kabuki theatre, few are as well known outside Japan as the hanamichi, the raised runway joined to the stage at the actors' right and proceeding through the auditorium to a curtained room at the rear. Used for major exits and entrances, it is also the site of important acting sequences. Because the hanamichi brings actors and spectators into close proximity without abandoning a stage-auditorium relationship similar to that in Western proscenium theatres, it has been of considerable interest to international theatre artists. Although its aesthetic and practical uses have been described in various Western sources, little attention has been paid to the hanamichi's origins. Among Japanese scholars, there is nearly as much contention surrounding this question as there is among Western scholars regarding the origins of the proscenium arch, the Elizabethan theatre's alcove, or the classical Greek theatre's use of a raised stage. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/1(1999), 24-41 0307-8833 24:1<24 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020241 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020241 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haruo Suwa Suwa Haruo isProfessor of Theatre Studies at Gakushuin University, Tokyo NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/1(1999), 24-41 0307-8833 24:1<24 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge