Edition

(Left to right) Babi Floyd as Benkei in 1974 at Carleton College. Togashi in a Meiji-period woodblock print. Ichikawa Danjuro XI as Benkei in 2012.

Welcome to the WordPress edition of Kanjincho, one of the most beloved Kabuki plays, written by Namiki Gohei III and performed chiefly by Ichikawa family. This edition uses many features of WordPress and plugins to create an accessible, bilingual text of the play.

To learn about the background on Kabuki theater and Kanjincho, start at Kabuki and Kanjincho.

To learn about how this edition was created and how to navigate it, go to Notes On This Edition.

To dive into the demo edition, take a look at Demo.