ABSTRACT
The white face and body paint of the world of the ankoku butoh troupes gives one the strong impression that they are covered with white mud. It is possible that it brings to mind a mental image that has affinities with the image of living things covered with the ashes of death. It is likely that since the beginning, there has been an association between the color white and the bleached bones of the dead. It is not unreasonable for those who have seen Ohno Kazuo's butoh, in which he wears a thin, white robe, to see the dance of a skeleton. Butoh can be accepted as having been established on the breaking of taboos of Western dance aesthetics, because it unknowingly received and passed along the transmission of folk beauty in traditional kabuki. Or rather, it is perhaps more correct to say that butoh desecrated kabuki.
