Fuji Musume- Wisteria Girl

A young woman dances as the Fuji Musume — the Wisteria Maiden — a celebrated role in Nihon Buyo classical dance that later became a standard kabuki dance piece. The dancer carries a wisteria branch heavy with purple blooms, her costume trailing in the choreographed sorrow of a maiden pining for a beloved who does not return. Kotondo, heir to the Torii school's deep theatrical tradition, renders the iconic dance role with the authority of an artist for whom kabuki imagery was ancestral knowledge.