ABSTRACT
There are al\vays, also, some branches bearing plum or cherry blossoms, or maple leaves, hanging from the ceiling. These blossoms of the different seasons of the :year are made to eonforrn to the time setting of the
drama. Such branches, called tur£eda or "hanging branches," serve as part of the stage setting or decoration, and are quite indispensable to this fornl of drama. We may state, in short, that the stage setting of the Kabuki dance aims at the creation of a dream-like synlbolism, as far as possible avoiding any realism, and thereby enhancing the beauty and charnl of this form of the stage.
