{"product_id":"kabuki-dancer-9784770017833","title":"Kabuki Dancer","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo be kabuki in Japan once meant to be outrageous  daring  flaunting convention. It was in sixteenth-century Japan  as Shakespeare was writing his masterworks half a world away  that the spirit of Kabuki theater was born out of a single womans passions and dedication to her art. In Kabuki Dancer  the popular Japanese novelist Sawako Ariyoshi (The Doctors Wife  The River Ki  The Twilight Years) retells the story of Okuni  the legendary temple dancer who first performed among jugglers and freak shows on a stage along the riverbank in the heart of the Imperial city of Kyoto. Blending the rhythms and movements of religious festivals with the words of popular love songs she and her troupe became sensations. Their affairs and rivalries  infatuations and jealousies  were transformed into the very fabric of their performance  as it began its evolution into the classic drama of today. Against a backdrop of civil war  dynastic conflict  and social turmoil  Okuni and her companions and lovers  together with their audience of artisans  merchants  and aristocrats  struggled to survive the birth pangs of a glorious - yet sometimes deadly - new age. Based on fact  transmuted into powerful and moving artistic expression  Kabuki Dancer is at once a turbulent love story  a re-creation of an exotic and colorful historical period  and an almost mythic representation of the miraculous moment in which an immortal artform appears.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45273110872117,"sku":"ByrdShop_4770017839","price":337.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9784770017833.jpg?v=1780486657","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/kabuki-dancer-9784770017833","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}