Blog - Cat café and Kabuki
Cat café and Kabuki
My parents are in town for a visit!
On Christmas day we dropped by café Mugimaru2 in Kagurazaka, where this cat named Sun resides along together with its mom Matsuko. They serve manjū stuffed with red bean jam, cheese, etc.
Today we spent the day around Ginza, beginning by catching a play at Kabuki-za. The title was "kyokanoko musume Dojoji" (The Maiden of Dojoji Temple) and it featured a famous actor named Bando Mitsugoro in the role of a beautiful young woman who dances throughout. While all characters (men and women) in Kabuki are always impersonated by men, this actor usually plays men so this was a rare opportunity. Today was the last day for this show.
Unfortunately, it seems that they're about to rip down Kabuki-za in 2010. It's now celebrating its 120th anniversary but is getting old, they say.
We later dropped by the Metropolitan Police Museum and bought some goods of mascot Pipo-kun.
At the end of the afternoon we checked out some remaining illuminated trees around Tokyo station.
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr here and here
Posted on December 27, 2008 at 00:55 | Tweet
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