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[Shinpachi]

Late Abe's double, Satake update. The older he gets, the more he resembles Abe.
I even feel Abe's soul in him recently.

Satake in my neighborhood last month.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s-qM0oYNiM&t=349s

 

[Shinpachi]

A 12 year old Kabuki player Botan Ichikawa talks about her art. She is a sort of genius.
Her mother passed away in 2017 but Botan resembles her very well.

"In playing Kabuki, I think that players don't speak words normally but are always requested something like accents for lines but I'm not very good at putting them yet. So, my younger brother gives me advice like 'Maybe You should do like this for that line.' etc. .....When my father watches me performing, I always get really nervous. In the past, I did have strong feelings of 'I don't like it if I am scolded' or 'I don't like it if he warns me' but, recently, I want my father to watch my performance and, rather, I want him to point out my problem to fix because I begin to believe that I'm performing in the right way. So, my father watches me and I can receive a lot of points to be improved. Once I learned a choreography and started to understand it in my own way, I begin to want my father to see it."

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VgS-3yo1Cs&t=15s

Ichikawa family (from left: Shinnosuke, Danjuro and Botan)

Source: 市川團十郎、長男・新之助と長女・ぼたんの成長に「精神年齢は私が一番幼い。子どもです」