Kabuki is a form of traditional Japanese theater performed by all men actors. Kabuki is said to have begun around 1600 when Okuni, a female attendant of the Izumo Shrine, performed “Nenbutsu folk dances” in Kyoto. These were very popular, but all-female Kabuki came to be outlawed for corrupting public morals, and subsequently began being performed by all men actors. The men who play the roles of female characters are called “onnagata.” Plays and dances may be about grand historical events or everyday life of people in the Edo period (1600-1868).