popular noh noun noun (generic) kabuki
- kyogen, farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play
- kabuki play, kabuki performance
- make-believe, ruse, trick
popular ateji noun noun (generic) kabuki
- show, display, pretensions, appearances, ostentation, vanity
- pose, posture
popular kabuki noun noun (generic)
- elevated walkway through the audience to the stage
- honourable end to a career
popular kabuki noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- quick change (of costume)
- quick transformation, turning suddenly into, (sudden) metamorphosis
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb kabuki
- secret feud
- wordless pantomime performed in the dark
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 counter kabuki noun noun (generic)
- the nth ...
- divisions of a kabuki performance
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone go (game) kabuki archaic
- bill, bill of sale, payment invoice
- tab (for later payment), credit
- contact move, direct attack to an enemy stone
- sound effect produced by striking a wooden board with clappers
- letter
- reason, motive, pretext
- one's fortune, one's luck
expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) kabuki
- to declare confidently, to declare proudly, to declare dramatically
- to strike a pose (for dramatic effect)
kabuki noun noun (generic)
- song sung behind the scenes
kabuki noun noun (generic)
- song sung behind the scenes