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1. anime, n.3 View full entry 1985
...A genre of Japanese or Japanese-style animated film or television entertainment, characterized by a distinctive visual style involving stylized action sequences and usually featuring characters with distinctive large, staring eyes, and typically...
2. baren, n. View full entry 1895
...A pad used in wood-block printing....
3. bunraku, n. View full entry 1920
...A kind of traditional Japanese puppetry practised at the Bunraku-za marionette theatre by its company; also, a contracted name for this company; hence, the Japanese puppet theatre in general. Also attrib....
4. China, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1555
...The country so called, in Asia....
5. chop-stick, n.2 View full entry 1699
...pl. The two small sticks or slips of bone, wood, ivory, or the like, held between the thumb and fingers of one hand by the Chinese in place of a fork...
6. erh hu, n. View full entry 1908
...A Chinese two-stringed fiddle (see quots. 1975)....
7. gagaku, n. View full entry 1936
...A type of Japanese instrumental music performed chiefly on ceremonial occasions at the Imperial court and closely resembling the secular music of ancient China during the Tang period....
8. geisha, n. View full entry 1887
...A Japanese girl whose profession is to entertain men by dancing and singing; loosely, a Japanese prostitute....
9. haiku, n. View full entry 1899
...A form of Japanese verse, developed in the mid-16th century, usually consisting of 17 syllables and originally of jesting character; an English imitation of one. ...
10. hanashika, n. View full entry 1891
...A professional story-teller....
11. janizary | janissary, n. View full entry 1529
...One of a former body of Turkish infantry, constituting the Sultan's guard and the main part of the standing army. The body was first organized in the 14th century, and was composed...
12. jōruri, n. View full entry 1890
...A type of dramatic recitation to musical accompaniment, associated with the Japanese puppet theatre. Also attrib. or as ...
13. Kabuki, n. View full entry 1899
...A traditional and popular form of Japanese drama which employs highly stylized singing, miming, and dancing in addition to acting, and in which (since 1650) all the parts are played...
14. k'ai shu, n. View full entry 1876
...The standard calligraphic script used for the Chinese language, developed during the Later Han dynasty (a.d. 23–220) as a simplified form of the official li-shu script. Also as...
15. kakemono, n. View full entry 1890
...A Japanese wall-picture, painted on silk or paper, and mounted on rollers, so as to be rolled up and put away when desired....
16. karaoke, n. View full entry 1979
...A form of entertainment, originating in Japan, in which a person sings the vocal line of a popular song to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded backing tape, and the voice is electronically...
17. katsuramono, n. View full entry 1916
...One of the categories of Japanese Noh plays in which the chief character is female and the theme romantic. It is usually presented third in the sequence of five plays of different...
18. kisaeng, n. View full entry 1895
...In Korea, a trained female entertainer, the Korean equivalent of the geisha girl....
19. koto, n. View full entry 1795
...A Japanese musical stringed instrument played with both hands. ...
20. Kuan | Kwan, n. View full entry 1814
...= mandarin2a....
