Editing Kabuki (section)

==Post-Meiji period kabuki==
{{See also|Censorship in Japan#Occupation of Japan}}
[[File:Shibaraku, Kabukiza November 1895 production.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|The November 1895 production of {{transliteration|ja|[[Shibaraku]]}} at the Tokyo [[Kabuki-za]] theatre]]

Beginning in 1868, enormous cultural changes, such as the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, the elimination of the [[samurai]] class, and the opening of Japan to the West, helped to spark kabuki's re-emergence. Both actors and playwrights strove to improve the reputation of kabuki in the face of new foreign influence and amongst the upper classes, partially through adapting traditional styles to modern tastes. This endeavour would prove successful, with the Emperor sponsoring a kabuki performance on 21 April 1887.<ref>Shōriya, Asagoro. [http://kabuki21.com/hist_19.php Kabuki Chronology of the 19th century at Kabuki21.com] (Retrieved 18 December 2006.)</ref>

After [[World War II]], the occupying forces briefly banned kabuki, which had formed a strong base of support for Japan's war efforts since 1931.<ref>{{harvnb|Brandon|2009}}</ref> This ban was in conjunction with broader restrictions on media and art forms that the American military occupation instituted after WWII.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abel |first=Jonathan E |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897200923 |title=Redacted: the archives of censorship in transwar Japan |date=2012 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-27334-4 |location=Berkeley |language=English |oclc=897200923}}</ref> However, by 1947 the ban on kabuki was rescinded, but censorship rules lingered.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Takemae|first=Eiji|title=The Allied Occupation of Japan|others=Robert Ricketts and Sebastian Swann (translators and adapters)|orig-year=1983|year=2002|publisher=Continuum|location=New York & London|isbn=0-8264-6247-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/insideghqalliedo00/page/390 390–391]|url=https://archive.org/details/insideghqalliedo00/page/390}}</ref>