otoko-mai

Updated: May 29, 2025

The story is to be found in the Zoku Nihon Ki, or supplementary history of Japan. Her performances, however, seem only to have consisted in dancing or posturing dressed up in the costume of the nobles of the Court, from which fact her dance was called Otoko-mai, or the man's dance. Her name is only worth mentioning on account of the respect in which her memory is held by actors.

Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale - Tales of Old Japan