Example sentences for: kabuki

How can you use “kabuki” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Kabuki

  • The first kabuki theater was built in on this site in 1889.

  • Sumo wrestlers and Kabuki actors were the celebrities, and artists advertised their prowess in cheap color woodblock prints (see Katsukawa Shun'ei's The Sumo Wrestlers Kajihama and Jinmaku , circa 1790, and Toshusai Sharaku's The Kabuki Actor Otani Oniji III as the Servant Edohei , 1794).

  • I was compelled to pay strict attention (for four or five hours at a time) to setting, lighting, music, gesture, singing, pace of over-all presentation; to this or that role's performance, costume, formal distancing from the audience (Noh) or Globe-like intimacy with the audience (Kabuki); to traditional methods of men's playing women's parts, audience's anticipation and shouted recognition of favorite plays and actors and moments, tone of voice, etc.

  • Kyoto’s kabuki troupe performs in December and Osaka’s in May.


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