Although in the early years, both men and women acted in Kabuki plays, soon the Tokugawa Shogunate forbade woman to appear on the stage on the ground of immorality. Since then all roles have been played by men. The Nakamuraza was located in Sakaicho in downtown Edo. Balconies and the Hanamichi. The Hanamichi is a narrow runway extending through the audience at right angles to the right of the stage.
Actors use it to enter and exit to and from the main stage, and it serves as a secondary stage.
Kudo is the man who killed their father. A curtain patterned with gingko leaves, emblem of the Nakamuraza, surrounds the Yagura . Kido Geisha , the men wearing red hoods on the stand, call people into the theater imitating the voices of popular actors.