art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
performance; trick; feat; extraordinary deed; daring act; bold move
entertainer; performer; celebrity; entertainment personality
(TV) comedian; performer (esp. of a traditional art); entertainer; talented person; accomplished person
public entertainment; performing arts; accomplishments; attainments
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
geisha; professional female entertainer, usu. at traditional banquets
show business; entertainment industry; world of entertainment
literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)
acrobatics; acrobatic performance; stunt
handicraft; industrial art object
Aki (former province located in the west of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)
work of art; artwork; objet d'art
lacking skill; uninspiring; unexciting; dull; unrefined; boring (from being too plain)
master of martial arts; practitioner of martial arts
(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly
artistry; artistic quality; artistic character
arts and sciences; liberal arts
traditional art; traditional performance art
traditional performing arts (e.g. shamisen, koto, dance, etc.); accomplishments
one's specialty; one's forte; specialty of a kabuki school
one-liner; funny joke; gag; quick trick
one's party piece; parlor trick; hidden talent
university of arts; arts college
performing style; acting style
entertainment; performance
arts; crafts; handicrafts
attentive to detail; meticulous in one's work
traditional craft; traditional handicrafts
versatile entertainer; all-round performer; person skilled in their craft
uninspiring; unexciting; dull; unrefined; uninteresting
craftsmanship; artisanship
(skill of) making funny faces; facial performance
to excel in one thing; to be a master in an art
Tokyo University of the Arts
every martial art; all the martial arts
performing arts; accomplishment (in performing arts)
one's history as a performer
university of arts; arts college
masterful performance; virtuosity
being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one
type of dancing and shouting performed by fans at concerts (usu. idol concerts)
literary criticism; book review
total work of art; complete work of art; Gesamtkunstwerk; artwork that integrates music, poetry, and acting; composite art
Bungeishunju (publishing company); Bungei Shunjū (magazine)
classical theatre; classical theater
faculty of arts; school of arts
art works, traditional artifacts and antiques; artistic handicrafts; decorative art
lacking skill; uninspiring; unexciting; dull; unrefined; boring (from being too plain)
(the art of) storytelling
geisha; (arch.) kabuki actor (esp. a young actor); (arch.) person accomplished in the arts
(artistic) accomplishments
entertainment journalist; entertainment reporter; gossip columnist
autumn, the best season for enjoying art
being entertained by a geisha
amateur's skill or performance
something that will help develop one's artistic skill
literary (and the arts) column
art for art's sake; l'art pour l'art; ars gratia artis
study or science of literature; a liberal arts department
art for art's sake; l'art pour l'art; ars gratia artis
handicrafts; hand-crafted goods
(system of) admitting students on the basis on their non-academic abilities (e.g. sports, art; as opposed to exam results)
lacking talent; lacking accomplishments
solo comedian; standup comedian; comedian not part of a duo, trio, etc.
one's specialty performance; one's repertoire
Kyoto City University of Arts
performer (esp. of a traditional art)
performing art; technique (in a performing art)
arts and crafts; artistic handicraft; fine and applied art
entertainment reporter; entertainment journalist; gossip columnist
entertainment reporter; entertainment journalist; gossip columnist
town geisha; geisha not working in a red-light district
academy of arts; arts academy
(excelling in) one area or skill; (being skilled or gifted in) one certain area
versatile; multi-talented
female entertainer; geisha
liberal arts college; teachers' college
traditional performing arts (e.g. shamisen, koto, dance, etc.); accomplishments
tricks performed with the feet
Kyoto Institute of Technology
piece of (artistic) pottery; ceramic work
art studies; science of art
Kyoto University of Art and Design
handicraft object; piece of handicraft work
sacred art; religious art
Tokyo Polytechnic University
Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
dilettantism; amateurism (in art)
Kyoto University of the Arts
geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period)
Ninigi no Mikoto (Japanese deity; grandson of Amaterasu, great grandfather of Emperor Jimmu)
cultivar; cultivated variety of a plant
music hall; entertainment hall
unusual trick; rarely seen skill
horticultural science; horticulture
Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences
various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance); miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period
talent and accomplishments; wisdom and works
one's party piece; parlor trick; hidden talent
spatial art; space art; plastic arts; formative arts
oral literature; folklore
Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
unaccomplished person; uninteresting person; nobody
entertainment section (of a newspaper); entertainment column
fallen geisha; geisha who prostitutes herself
Nihon Bungeisha (publisher)
lacking the talent to do anything but eat
secret technique; secret art
one's specialty; one's forte; specialty of a kabuki school
artists' colony; colony of artists
posing and moving the fingers as an art form; finger-tutting
unaccomplished person; uninteresting person; nobody
Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts
temporal art; art forms which unfold over time
artistic and literary circles
type of dancing and shouting performed by fans at concerts (usu. idol concerts)
art lover; lover of the arts
agriculture and horticulture
Tohoku University of Art & Design
floriculture; flower gardening
one's specialty performance; one's repertoire
(untalented) geisha who sells sex; geisha who steals money from sleeping travellers
useless person; good-for-nothing
hot spring geisha; onsen geisha; geisha working in a hot spring resort
geisha living and working in a restaurant, inn, etc. (as opposed to in a geisha house); in-house geisha
fallen geisha; geisha who prostitutes herself
Yamaguchi Gakugei University
The Japan Writers' Association; JWA
dog that knows (does) tricks
Kyoto University of Arts and Crafts
fallen geisha; geisha who prostitutes herself
a jack of all trades is a master of none
artistic and literary circles
street performance (in the Edo period)
Nigihayahi; deity who married Nagasunehiko's younger sister and subsequently killed him when he opposed Emperor Jimmu
department of design; faculty of design
floriculture; flower gardening
Shugei Shuchiin School (ca 829CE)
Tōhō Gakuen College of Drama and Music
Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
talentless and incompetent; incompetent and unaccomplished
useless person; good-for-nothing
common rue (Ruta graveolens)
plowing and weeding; farming; cultivation; tillage
horticultural agriculture
art is long, life is short; ars longa, vita brevis
trapeze artist; aerial artist
arboriculture; tree growing
arboriculture; tree growing
geisha belonging to a call-office (usually a skilled geisha)
Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)
geisha from the Fukagawa red-light district in Edo
ordinance liberating all geisha and prostitutes (1872)
being a jack of all trades and master of none
pomology; fruit crop science
geisha of loose morals; geisha who is easy to bed
Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)
calligraphic art; calligraphy (as an art)
art for life's sake; l'art pour la vie
mingeishi (type of washi)
being able to live as an artist is no blessing
being able to live as an artist is no blessing
performance at a drinking party; party trick
circus equestrian-trick performer
Act on the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries
spatiotemporal art; spatial-temporal art
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
British Royal Gardening Society
the Royal Academy of Arts (UK); The Academy
Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
Royal Horticultural Society; RHS
Traditional Arts School of Kyoto; TASK
Kyushu Institute of Design
Tokyo University of Arts (abbr)
Geibi Line (Hiroshima-North Okayama railway)
Tokoname Ceramic-Art Laboratory
Art and Architecture School of Waseda University
Kawaguchi Art School of Waseda University
Tokyo Nohgei Agricultural High School
Japan Popular Music Writers Association; JPM
Nippon Photography Institute; NPI
Takarazuka University of Art and Design
Nagoya University of Arts
Nagoya College of Art & Design
Tokyo Gakugei University (abbr.)
Yamano College of Aesthetics
Ariake College of Education and the Arts
Yoshimoto New Star Creation (comedy school established by Yoshimoto Kogyo); Yoshimoto Academy; NSC