#I still understand them better than Kabuki!! And I've put in so much less effort

[eroguron0nsense]

Today's Episode of Shit I Do To Write About Media

So I've been trying to get into Kabuki and Noh (especially Kabuki) to better understand stock characters, stagecraft, famous plays etc and apply that knowledge to my Japanese cinema/anime/Wano Arc analysis since I'm a massive weeb/film bro/Asian Studies Major, but either the free English language sources I'm using suck or I'm just approaching it entirely the wrong way because I now know some of the stories and the basics of kumadori but have understood fuck all about any other aspect of it? Maybe it's the linguistic barriers, which I always knew would be part of it, but I'm decently familiar with Japanese history, lit, and famous plays or narratives that have been adapted into Kabuki and Noh that I did not think I'd be this fucking lost. I have spent the last forever googling "what does red wig mean" and I *can't figure it out*

...The things I put myself through to try and write about one piece