The hikimaku is the Kabuki stage curtain, which is manually pulled across the stage from right to left by a stage assistant at the opening of a play. The curtain pattern is a set of three vertical stripes, whose color were fixed during the Edo period for each theater. These colors are still used nowadays:

Picture	Colors	Theaters
	White (shiro) Yellowish Persimmon Brown (kaki) Black (kuro)	Nakamuraza Heisei Nakamuraza
	Black (kuro) Yellowish Persimmon Brown (kaki) Sprout Green (moegi)	Moritaza Kabukiza Shôchikuza Minamiza Hakataza
	Black (kuro) Sprout Green (moegi) Yellowish Persimmon Brown (kaki)	Ichimuraza National Theatre Asakusa Kôkaidô Ôsaka Shinkabukiza

The pulling of the hikimaku by an actor