Search Terms: *芝*
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noun
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kamishibai, storytelling with pictures, form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
noun
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Psilocybe subcaerulipes (species of psychoactive mushroom)(usually kana)
Other readings:
アイゾメシバフタケ
noun
1.
large-scale play, play with an A-list cast
See also:小芝居
2.
big act, big charade, false display
3.
theatre with a government licence (Edo period)(historical term)
noun
1.
small theatre, kabuki performed in a small theatre
See also:大芝居
2.
little performance, short acted scene, act, routine, skit
noun
1.
monkey show
2.
bad acting, overacting, unconvincing performance, farce, clumsy subterfuge(idiom )
Godan-ru verb, intransitive verb
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to be affected, to be theatrical, to be pompous(usu. as 芝居がかった)
Other readings:
芝居掛かる【しばいがかる】
、芝居掛る【しばいがかる】
noun
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striving for effect, heroics, dramatics, showmanship, staginess, (exaggerated) theatricality
See also:芝居気
expression, Godan-tsu verb
1.
to play a trick, to put up a false show, to deceive someone
2.
to put on a play, to present a play, to give a play(original meaning)