Example sentences for: kabuki

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

  • 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).

  • Connoisseurs wait for the set pieces: the colorful parade of the courtesan, a poignant seppuku suicide, the exciting fight scenes, and — summit of the art of kabuki — the end of a love affair that the heroine must break off, perhaps to save her lover’s honor, but never because she no longer loves him.

  • Can there be any doubt how this Kabuki ritual will play out yet again?

  • Celebrated in kabuki theater, film, and television, the story has had an abiding hold on the imagination of the Japanese people.

  • Kyoto is the national center for such traditional disciplines as cha-do (tea ceremony) and ikebana (flower arranging), the birthplace of kabuki, and the leading center of calligraphy, painting, and sculpture.


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