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''Yose'' were small town theaters which emerged in the mid-18th century, and spread by the end of that century. While [[kabuki]] was officially restricted to a handful of officially licensed theaters in each city, ''yose'', which proliferated into nearly every town ward of [[Edo]] by the end of the 18th century, hosted performances of a wide variety of other performing arts, including stage magic, shadowplay, ''[[joruri|jôruri]]'' chanting, and ''[[rakugo]]''.
The first ''yose'' is said to have been established in [[1745]]. These theaters played a key role in the popularization and development of ''rakugo'' in particular, and were attended by men and women from a variety of social status categories.
In the 1840s, when [[Mizuno Tadakuni|Mizuno Tadakuni's]] [[Tenpo Reforms|Tenpô Reforms]] targeted the ''yose'', there were around 210 of them in Edo. Though suppressed by the Reforms, they quickly sprang back up once Mizuno fell out of power.
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==References==
*[[Eiko Ikegami]], ''Bonds of Civility'', Cambridge University Press (2005), 316.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Poetry and Theater]]