 It grew out of Noh theatre and traditional Shinto dances, and was originally much more a dance form than drama.After periods of women's kabuki ("onna kabuki") and young men's kabuki ("wakamono kabuki"), in which the dancers/actors were also prostitutes, and thus various proscriptions were put into place, including the banning of women from the stage, men's kabuki ("yarō kabuki"), the beginnings of what is considered today the mainstream form of kabuki, emerged.Sakata Tōjūrō (1647–1709) was one of the first actors in this new form, and an extremely influential one in shaping Kamigata kabuki.