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During the Meiji period, audiences of kageki were mostly women belonged to the lower classes. In the feudal status system, women at that time had no freedoms to love/marry at their own will or to advocate their own rights, especially, lives of those in the cities (typically Shuri, Naha), where the status system was more rigid, were more worse and tragic. Heroines of hi-kageki, who devoted themselves single-mindedly to families, husbands or children and never got rewarded. And surely the audiences felt those ill-fated heroines as if themselves. The reason why kageki became popular was that the common basic theme of the script, "downright self-sacrifice" appealed the audience because this could made everyone a heroine of tragedy. |
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Iezima Handuugwa |  |
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The Peonies in a Deep Forest |  |
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