After breakfast Monday our group left for a demonstration/practice session at a Sumo
"stable." These heavy-set wrestlers have ancient rituals and in some ways are agile
despite their weight. Then, in the city's "Ginza," the "Fifth Avenue" of Tokyo, we were taught how to make sushi and received a diploma from the master sushi chef. In the afternoon Jim and I opted out of the bar-hopping
tour, because we had tickets for a Kabuki performance at the oldest theater in Japan,
the Kabuki-Za. The program celebrated the reign of Japan's new emperor, and also the
addition of a child actor in a famed Kabuki clan. The amazing star of the show, Onoe
Kikunosuke portrayed both a fierce warrior and a spurned maiden who does an elaborate
dance. One wondered how many western actors could do the same? It was incredible to
again visit Japan's colorful Kabuki theater after a long absence. - Dan
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