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  • It is a hybrid of a human and a tortoise. hanamichi, which is occasionally built to the right of the audience, for specific dramas that require the use of 2

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  • Big Mistress stood with me behind the curtain as I was about to make my entrance onto the hanamichi, the elevated passageway that runs from the rear of the theater to the stage.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • Big Mistress stood with me behind the curtain as I was about to make my entrance onto the hanamichi, the elevated passageway that runs from the rear of the theater to the stage.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • The first of these premiered in hanamichi, located at the shichisan, used for the apparition of supernatural creatures.

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  • Its distance from the stage is 30% of the length of the hanamichi, which also explains the origin of the name (shichisan literally means "7-3", 7 units of length to the agemaku and 3 units to the stage).

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  • Any actor entering or leaving the stage through the hanamichi has to stop on this symbolic point, either to strike a mie or to deliver a line.

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  • Shichisan (七三) - An important feature in Kabuki, the shichisan is located on the hanamichi, on top of the suppon.

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  • The scene requires the use of two hanamichi for the simultaneous entrance of both lovers.

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  • Agemaku (揚幕): Permanent curtain located at the entrance of the hanamichi.

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  • Ito sukashi dairi Hamamatsu, adj. itzebu dai-sho hanami jaburan dai-sho-no-soroimono hanamichi janken hanashika jigotai dan haniwa jimigaki daruma haori jingu do happi-coat jinja dojo harai goshi jinkai senjitsu dotaku hara-kiri jinricksha emakimono hashigakari jinrikisha Eta Hashimoto's jinriksha fuchi hatamoto jito fugu hayashi jiu-jitsu fuji hechima Jodo Fukuoka, adj.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982

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