For 38 years, Kishin Shinoyama has been taking photographs of Bando Tamasaburo, a living legend of kabuki theatre. In 1970, the author and nationalist ritual suicide, Yukio Mishima, said of this ‘onnagata’-a male actor who specialises in female roles, but doesn’t play them exclusively: "The onnagata is the flower of Kabuki, and although the great elders are essential in this field, if there were no young actors, none of these flowers in bud, kabuki would not survive. Nowadays, even though we would like to cultivate such flowers, there is no soil for this purpose and we can only impatiently wait for a miracle. Now our patience has been rewarded. Tamasaburo is a young onnagata whose elegance and delicacy call to mind the working of ivory. He is the living proof of the vitality of kabuki."
Más escaneos de las hermosas fotografías aparecidas en la revista Paradis y la entrevista a Shinoyama AQUÍ…
