CURTAIN RAISER: Paris-based specialty embroiderer Atelier Montex has worked with French contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan on the behest of Chanel to create the backdrop for the formal naming ceremony of actor Maholo Terajima, the primary French-Japanese kabuki performer.
The ten-year-old actor, who began his profession aged 4, will take the stage name of Onoe Maholo I on Tuesday, when he makes his debut in a play titled “Oto Kiku Maholo no Wakamusha” (or Maholo, the young warrior of Otowaya in Japanese), at Tokyo’s Kabuki-za theater as a part of the Danjuro-Kikugoro festival or “Dankikusai” that runs until May 27.
The monumental traditional “iwai maku” curtain that spans the length of the stage features an abstract pixelated motif alongside Terajima’s name and...
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