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entire wardrobe of Kansai designs. On this tour he even wore sumo-<br />

wrestler’s pants and learned new makeup techniques from one of Japan’s<br />

most popular kabuki stars, Tomasu Boro.<br />

Image removed according to copyright law<br />

Figure 47: David Bowie with the designer Kansai Yamamoto in 1973<br />

wearing the Space Samurai costume for Aladdin Sane, influenced by Noh theatre and science fiction<br />

<strong>The</strong> meshing of rock performance with Japanese theatrical style was an<br />

innovation in itself. But Bowie also did much to break down the societal<br />

divide between notions of East and West. Says Buckley:<br />

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