List: kabuki
Terms used in kabuki, a classical form of Japanese drama.
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 noun noun (generic) abbreviation kabuki sumo prefix
- departure, setting off, start
- being used up, being consumed, being burnt out
- passage of time, lapse
- rehearsal
- leading male role
- rising from a crouch to charge, initial charge, faceoff
- verb prefix conveying emphasis and sometimes formality
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 noun noun (generic) kabuki
- speech, address, verbal message, (formal) greeting, statement
- curtain speech, prologue, on-stage greeting
- way of speaking, manner of speech
popular kabuki noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb
- quick change (of costume)
- quick transformation, turning suddenly into, (sudden) metamorphosis
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb kabuki
- secret feud
- wordless pantomime performed in the dark
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã Buddhism kabuki
- incarnation (of a god, spirit or abstract quality), embodiment, personification
- avatar, incarnation
- monster role
- kumadori worn for a monster role
popular noun noun (generic) kabuki
- hiring from another company, recruitment, scouting, headhunting
- quick costume change (taking off outer costume)
- drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)
- extraction, pulling out
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 counter kabuki noun noun (generic)
- the nth ...
- divisions of a kabuki performance