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What is Okinawa Shibai (Okinawan Play)?
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The Modern Entertainment Play in Okinawa (Okinawa shibai)

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Description
In the early years of the Showa period, Inkichi Iraha, a leader of a theatrical company, asked Eikichi Yamazato; a prominent author/historian/painter/ to write a script of shigeki for him. Yamazato created "Ryukyu Shigeki", a series of dynamic shigeki with detailed historical background of Okinawa. One of his masterpieces;"Shurijo Akewatashi" (Surrender of Shuri Castle) which portrayed a historical fact known as "Ryukyu Shobun" was shown for the first time at Taisho Gekijyo.The theatre was established in Nishi-shincho, Naha, by the fourth son of the last king of the Ryukyu Dynasty, Baron Hisayoshi.

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A typical type of Okinawan play
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