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Kabuki
(kəˈbuːkɪ, ‖ kabuki)
Also with small initial.
[Jap., f. ka song + bu dance + ki art, skill.]
A traditional and popular form of Japanese drama which employs highly stylized singing, miming, and dancing in addition to acting, and in which (since c 1650) all the parts are played by males. Also attrib. Hence Kabukiˈesque a., in the style or manner of the Kabuki theatre.
1899W. G. Aston Hist. Jap. Lit. VI. iii. 288 Kabuki theatres, which had men for actors, had been established there before the middle of the seventeenth century. 1928Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 8/4 The Kabuki affords freedom for old and favourite plays, for new ones on Western lines, and for adaptations of Western drama. 1951Oxf. Compan. Theatre 411 The present day Japanese theatre takes three distinct, although related forms, the Nō or lyrical drama, Ningyō-shibai or marionettes, and Kabuki, the popular theatre. 1954F. Bowers Jap. Theatre vii. 224 Another woman who lies down to offer herself as a substitute for the married woman—a postwar Kabukiesque ‘substitution’. 1960B. Leach Potter in Japan viii. 190 The merchant class with its popular arts of the Kabuki theatre and the colour print. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 1171 Favourite subjects were theatre scenes, which began to appear along with the development of the popular Kabuki theatre in the 17th. c. 1972Nat. Geographic Sept. 378 Man in maiden's guise charms theater-goers in the classical drama known as Kabuki. 1972Mainichi Daily News (Japan) 6 Nov. 3/5 Collection and sale of kabuki dolls. |