Changes

Costumes, makeup,  

Costumes, makeup,  

Wigs built around a copper wire skeleton are the traditional standard.

Wigs built around a copper wire skeleton are the traditional standard. They are often made from human hair, with yak hair used for topknots.<ref>Gallery labels, Kabuki-za.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/33421810674/in/dateposted-public/]</ref>

Actors wear a skull cap called a ''[[habutae]]'' under their wigs. Those worn by ''[[onnagata]]'' (actors playing female roles) are purple in color, and are known as ''murasaki bôshi'' (lit. "purple hat"). Though these purple cloths are today invisible under the wigs, kabuki actors were for much of the Edo period forbidden from hiding their shaved pates (the mark that they were, in fact, adult men and not women) under a wig, and were, further, subject to periodic inspections to make sure their hair was maintained at within a legal length; the use of a cloth to cover the bald area was permitted however, and it became standard that a purple or persimmon-dyed cloth be used.

Actors wear a skull cap called a ''[[habutae]]'' under their wigs. Those worn by ''[[onnagata]]'' (actors playing female roles) are purple in color, and are known as ''murasaki bôshi'' (lit. "purple hat"). Though these purple cloths are today invisible under the wigs, kabuki actors were for much of the Edo period forbidden from hiding their shaved pates (the mark that they were, in fact, adult men and not women) under a wig, and were, further, subject to periodic inspections to make sure their hair was maintained at within a legal length; the use of a cloth to cover the bald area was permitted however, and it became standard that a purple or persimmon-dyed cloth be used.