Word Meaning 顔見世狂言

かおみせきょうげん kaomisekyougen

顔見世狂言 is read as かおみせきょうげん (kaomisekyougen) and means December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform.

Meaning

English

December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

Reading

Kana

かおみせきょうげん

Romaji

kaomisekyougen

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 44 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 4級 Rank 58281 Priority J

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

狂言

きょうげん

kabuki play

世界人権宣言

せかいじんけんせんげん

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

二番目狂言

にばんめきょうげん

second play on the program

上方狂言

かみがたきょうげん

kabuki in the Kyoto-Osaka style

本狂言

ほんきょうげん

discrete kyogen (performed between two noh plays)

地狂言

じきょうげん

local amateur kabuki performance (esp. popular in the late Edo and early Meiji periods)

間狂言

あいきょうげん

kyogen interlude

間の狂言

あいのきょうげん

kyogen interlude

通し狂言

とおしきょうげん

performance of an entire play

当たり狂言

あたりきょうげん

a hit play

水狂言

みずきょうげん

theatre that uses water for tricks, etc.(during hot weather)

能狂言

のうきょうげん

noh farce