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Traditional Japanese drama
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kabuki
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kabuki is a comic book series created by artist and writer David Mack , first published in 1994 by Caliber Press and later by Image Comics . It is a story of an assassin who struggles with her identity in near-future Japan . The 2009 miniseries, Kabuki: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, from Japanese, popular theater (as opposed to shadow puppet-plays or lyrical Noh dramas), literally "art of song and dance," from ka "song" + bu "dance" + ki "art, skill" [Barnhart, OED]. Alternative etymology (in Webster's) is from nominal form of ...
Usage examples of kabuki.
Tiresias managed to look at him, at his immaculately white kabuki dollface and was not shocked.
Kabuki was the essence of dramatic art: The acting was highly stylized, all emotions exaggerated.
Lavish gifts, however, were almost unheard of, so I'd accumulated nothing more over the years than a few scrolls, inkstones, and bowls, as well as a collection of-stereoscopic photos of famous views, with a lovely viewer made of sterling silver, which the Kabuki actor Onoe Yoegoro XVII had given to me.
Because Noh is a very ancient art that has always been patronized by the Imperial court, dancers in Gion consider their art superior to the school of dance practiced in the Ponto-cho district across the river, which derives from Kabuki.
Nor do I take part in tea ceremonies, meet with geishas, attend Kabuki plays, watch sumo wrestling, or believe in the superiority of our native culture.