The student asked me to send the Kabuki that I like to him, I sent Bandō Tamasaburō's Yokihi. In this play, Mr Bandō performed Lady Yang, who was initially Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's daughter-in-law, but then the emperor took her into his palace as his concubine. Attending on the Emperor is like sleeping with a tiger. Ultimately she became involved in palace affairs, and was killed in Maweipo. Mr Bandō expressed desperation and loneliness well. His thin white face and dark hair reminds me of how Lady Yang was forced to die in Maweipo, falling on the ground covered with dust in such a cold world. The student watched it and said it's short, just more than 20 minutes. I said the Japanese part is 20 minutes, the second part is in Mandarin, also 20 minutes；and it's not a traditional Kabuki, so it's shorter. He asked me why do you like it? I said of course there are many good Kabuki actors, but this play is in Mandarin. I like Mr Bandō because he works hard, came to China to study opera, and made a good combination of Japanese Kabuki and Chinese opera. He didn't have an easy way into the theatre, because he was not born into a distinguished family of the Kabuki world. He asked, can people go to Kabuki schools to study? I said, most well known Kabuki actors were born in Kabuki families. Mr Bandō is an exception: he was adopted as a child into a Kabuki family, his exceptional talents recognized early on. Hey there, I would love to learn about chinese culture, shall we become language partners?