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November Program at the kabukiza

November Program at the Kabukiza Theatre

Daily: Nov 01 (Sun) - Nov 25 (Wed), 2026

Matinee:11:00 AM

Evening Show: 4:30 PM

*No performances on the 9th (Mon) and 17th (Tue).

*Reserved seats for the Matinee on the 14th (Sat) and for the Evening Show on the 22nd (Sun) are sold out. (Single Act Seats <4th level> will still be available.)

*Act 1: A special announcement will be performed before the Matinee starting at around 10:50AM.

*Act 4: If you arrive after the performance begins, we may not be able to show you to your seat for a while due to staging reasons. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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On sale: from Oct 14 (Wed), 2026 10:00 AM(JST)

Ticket Price
Special Seat: 20,000
First Class Seat: 18,000
Second Class A: 15,000
Second Class B: 14,000
Second Class C: 9,000
Upper Tier A: 6,500
Upper Tier B: 5,000
Box Seat: 20,000

Unit: Japanese Yen (tax included)

Ticket with "Captioning Service" (either English or simplified Chinese subtitles)
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Together with 'Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees' and 'Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy', 'The Treasury of Loyal Retainers' is one of the Three Great Classics of the kabuki repertoire. It is a masterpiece of plays with Gidayū musical accompaniment. Based on the famous vendetta by the 47 masterless samurai of Akō domain, the story portrays the hardship which the loyal retainers, and their leader, Ōboshi Yuranosuke, suffered, as well as the human relationships surrounding them, which has fascinated people throughout the ages.

Performance Time: Matinee: 11:00 AM - To be announced
Historical play

Whole play KANADEHON CHŪSHINGURA

['The Treasury of Loyal Retainers']

CAST :
<Acts 1 and 3: The Helmet Appraisal and the Sword Incident>
Program A
Kō no Moronō
Nakamura Ganjirō
En'ya Hangan
Onoe Ukon
Momonoi Wakasa no suke
Nakamura Shidō
Ashikaga Tadayoshi
Nakamura Yonekichi
Lady Kaoyo
Nakamura Senjaku
Program B
Kō no Moronō
Bandō Yajūrō
En'ya Hangan
Nakamura Shichinosuke
Momonoi Wakasa no suke
Nakamura Kashō
Ashikaga Tadayoshi
Nakamura Yonekichi
Lady Kaoyo
Nakamura Manju
<Act 4: En'ya Hangan's Suicide, to surrender the castle>
Program A
Ōboshi Yuranosuke
Matsumoto Kōshirō
En'ya Hangan
Onoe Ukon
Ōboshi Rikiya
Ichikawa Somegorō
Yakushiji Jirōzaemon
Ichikawa Omezō
Hara Gōemon
Ichikawa Komazō
Lady Kaoyo
Nakamura Senjaku
Ishidō Umanojō
Nakamura Karoku
Program B
Ōboshi Yuranosuke
Matsumoto Kōshirō
En'ya Hangan
Nakamura Shichinosuke
Ōboshi Rikiya
Onoe Tatsunosuke
Yakushiji Jirōzaemon
Ichikawa Omezō
Hara Gōemon
Ichikawa Komazō
Lady Kaoyo
Nakamura Manju
Ishidō Umanojō
Nakamura Shikan
<Joururi: Lover’s Journey>
Program A
Hayano Kanpei
Nakamura Kinnosuke
Sagisaka Bannai
Nakamura Toranosuke
Okaru, a lady-in-waiting
Onoe Kikugorō VIII

Program B
Hayano Kanpei
Ichikawa Somegorō
Sagisaka Bannai
Nakamura Tanenosuke
Okaru, a lady-in-waiting
Nakamura Tokizō
STORY :

[Acts 1 and 3: The Helmet Appraisal and the Sword Incident]
Daimyō lords from around the country gather for an important ceremony in the presence of Tadayoshi, the younger brother of the shōgun. Under the watchful eye of the official Moronō, Lords En'ya Hangan and Wakasa no suke have been charged with making sure everything goes according to protocol. En'ya Hangan's wife Kaoyo is asked to identify a helmet to be used in the ceremony. Moronō lusts after Kaoyo and tries to woo her, but Wakasa no suke stops him. In return, Moronō uses his position of authority to berate the young lord and Wakasa no suke decides to kill Moronō. But the next morning at the shōgun's mansion, Wakasa no suke's head retainer bribes Moronō to keep his master from causing an incident, and although Wakasa no suke is about to attack Moronō, the aged official's groveling stops him. As a result, though, Moronō is frustrated and angry and vents his feelings on En'ya Hangan, especially after Hangan innocently brings him a letter in which Kaoyo rejects Moronō's advances. Moronō increasingly insults Hangan, who, despite trying to ignore the pressure, finally draws his sword and attacks. Drawing a sword in the shōgun's palace is a crime punishable by death, but Moronō himself escapes with only a slight wound as others within the mansion hurry in to stop Hangan.

[Act 4: En'ya Hangan's Suicide, to surrender the castle]
Emissaries from the shōgun arrive at En'ya Hangan's mansion to announce that he has received the strictest penalty for his actions. He is ordered to commit ritual suicide and his household is to be disbanded. Hangan's hate for Moronō grows when he hears that Moronō has received no punishment. At the time of his suicide, Hangan waits and waits for his head retainer, but he does not arrive. Finally, Hangan plunges in the blade. At that moment, his head retainer Yuranosuke arrives from their home province. With his last breaths, Hangan gives Yuranosuke the knife he used to cut open his belly and tells him to take revenge. Now that the clan has been disbanded, Hangan's men become masterless samurai. Though some urge an immediate attack on Moronō, Yuranosuke bids them not do anything rash. When alone in front of the closed mansion gates, though, he secretly reveals his determination that his lord will not have died in vain.

[Jōruri: Lover's Journey]
After the death of his lord, the retainer Kanpei and his lover, the lady-in-waiting Okaru, flee to Okaru's home, a farmer's house in the country. Kanpei feels guilty about the events since he was having a romantic tryst rather than being at his master's side at the crucial moment. He tries to commit suicide, but Okaru stops him and convinces him that they should go to her home as husband and wife and wait for the right moment for him to apologize officially.

Performance Time: Evening Show: 4:30 PM - To be announced
Historical play

Whole play KANADEHON CHŪSHINGURA

['The Treasury of Loyal Retainers']

CAST :
<Acts 5 and 6: The Yamazaki Highway and Kanpei's Suicide>
Program A
Hayano Kanpei
Nakamura Hayato
Okaru, Kanpei's wife
Onoe Kikugorō VIII
Ono Sadakurō
Nakamura Mantarō
Senzaki Yagorō
Nakamura Hashinosuke
Genroku, a procurer
Bandō Kamezō
Osai, proprietress of the Ichimonjiya
Nakamura Tokizō
Fuwa Kazuemon
Nakamura Matagorō
Program B
Hayano Kanpei
Nakamura Hayato
Okaru, Kanpei's wife
Onoe Ukon
Ono Sadakurō
Nakamura Shidō
Senzaki Yagorō
Nakamura Hashinosuke
Genroku, a procurer
Bandō Kamezō
Osai, proprietress of the Ichimonjiya
Nakamura Jakuemon
Fuwa Kazuemon
Nakamura Matagorō
<Act 7: The Ichiriki Teahouse>
Program A
Ōboshi Yuranosuke
Matsumoto Kōshirō
Teraoka Heiemon
Nakamura Mantarō
Ōboshi Rikiya
Ichikawa Somegorō
Okaru, a courtesan
Onoe Kikugorō VIII
Program B
Ōboshi Yuranosuke
Matsumoto Kōshirō
Teraoka Heiemon
Onoe Shōroku
Ōboshi Rikiya
Nakamura Toranosuke
Okaru, a courtesan
Onoe Ukon
<Act 11: The Attack on Moronō's Mansion>
Program A
Ōboshi Yuranosuke
Matsumoto Kōshirō
Kobayashi Heihachirō
Nakamura Kashō
Takemori Kitahachi
Nakamura Tanenosuke
Ōboshi Rikiya
Ichikawa Somegorō
Hara Gōemon
Kawarasaki Gonjūrō
Teraoka Heiemon
Nakamura Mantarō
Hattori Itsurō
Nakamura Baigyoku

Program B
Ōboshi Yuranosuke
Matsumoto Kōshirō
Kobayashi Heihachirō
Nakamura Takanosuke
Takemori Kitahachi
Onoe Tatsunosuke
Ōboshi Rikiya
Nakamura Toranosuke
Hara Gōemon
Kawarasaki Gonjūrō
Teraoka Heiemon
Onoe Shōroku
Hattori Itsurō
Nakamura Baigyoku
STORY :

[Acts 5 and 6: The Yamazaki Highway and Kanpei's Suicide]
Kanpei lives a poor life with Okaru at her parents' rural home. He desperately wants to take part in the vendetta against Moronō, but must come up with the money necessary to finance his part in it. Secretly, Okaru and her family decide that the only way to raise the money is to sell her to the pleasure quarters. Having been to seal the deal and collect half the payment, Okaru's father is on his way home along a lonely highway when a thief named Sadakurō kills him and steals the money. In a bizarre twist of events, Kanpei then unknowingly kills the robber while hunting on the same dark night, and he finds the money. But later, the fabric of the wallet seems to prove that he has murdered his father-in-law. Kanpei commits ritual suicide, taking responsibility not only for the death of this father-in-law, but also for being absent when his lord needed him most.

[Act 7: The Ichiriki Teahouse]
Yuranosuke spends his days and nights in the pleasure quarters of Kyoto in an effort to make Moronō believe he is not planning a vendetta. His acting is so good that even men in his own group believe he has given his life up to pleasure. Moronō is not so easily convinced, though, and has sent spies, including a former retainer of En'ya Hangan, to find out Yuranosuke's true intentions. Yuranosuke finds himself tested to the limits by the spy, and is even forced to eat meat on the anniversary of Hangan's death, a strong taboo. Okaru, now a courtesan, is also at the Ichiriki Teahouse. She catches a glimpse of a letter to Yuranosuke detailing plans for the vendetta. After he sees her doing so, he offers to buy out her contract, knowing he must kill her to keep the vendetta a secret. Okaru's brother Heiemon, a servant in the Hangan household, has also come to the teahouse and when he hears that Yuranosuke is to buy out his sister's contract, he realizes his true intentions. Heiemon tries to convince Okaru to let him kill her as such an act may allow him to take part in the vendetta as well. Hearing that Kanpei is now dead, Okaru agrees, but observing their loyal actions, Yuranosuke spares Okaru and allows Heiemon to join the vendetta.

[Act 11: The Attack on Moronō's Mansion]
Disguised as firemen, En'ya Hangan's retainers attack Moronō's mansion on a snowy night. After a fierce fight, they find Moronō hiding in a charcoal shed and take revenge for their lord's wrongful death.

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