art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)
(TV) comedian; performer (esp. of a traditional art); entertainer; talented person; accomplished person
performance; trick; feat; extraordinary deed; daring act; bold move
entertainer; performer; celebrity; entertainment personality
public entertainment; performing arts; accomplishments; attainments
master of martial arts; practitioner of martial arts
geisha; professional female entertainer, usu. at traditional banquets
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
show business; entertainment industry; world of entertainment
acrobatics; acrobatic performance; stunt
handicraft; industrial art object
work of art; artwork; objet d'art
(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
lacking skill; uninspiring; unexciting; dull; unrefined; boring (from being too plain)
arts and sciences; liberal arts
university of arts; arts college
artistry; artistic quality; artistic character
traditional performing arts (e.g. shamisen, koto, dance, etc.); accomplishments
one-liner; funny joke; gag; quick trick
one's party piece; parlor trick; hidden talent
entertainment; performance
performing style; acting style
arts; crafts; handicrafts
attentive to detail; meticulous in one's work
one's specialty; one's forte; specialty of a kabuki school
every martial art; all the martial arts
versatile entertainer; all-round performer; person skilled in their craft
uninspiring; unexciting; dull; unrefined; uninteresting
traditional art; traditional performance art
craftsmanship; artisanship
university of arts; arts college
literary criticism; book review
one's history as a performer
(skill of) making funny faces; facial performance
performing arts; accomplishment (in performing arts)
to excel in one thing; to be a master in an art
geisha; (arch.) kabuki actor (esp. a young actor); (arch.) person accomplished in the arts
traditional craft; traditional handicrafts
being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one
Bungeishunju (publishing company); Bungei Shunjū (magazine)
masterful performance; virtuosity
type of dancing and shouting performed by fans at concerts (usu. idol concerts)
entertainment journalist; entertainment reporter; gossip columnist
total work of art; complete work of art; Gesamtkunstwerk; artwork that integrates music, poetry, and acting; composite art
art for art's sake; l'art pour l'art; ars gratia artis
art for art's sake; l'art pour l'art; ars gratia artis
(artistic) accomplishments
lacking talent; lacking accomplishments
art works, traditional artifacts and antiques; artistic handicrafts; decorative art
being entertained by a geisha
amateur's skill or performance
autumn, the best season for enjoying art
town geisha; geisha not working in a red-light district
something that will help develop one's artistic skill
study or science of literature; a liberal arts department
female entertainer; geisha
faculty of arts; school of arts
literary (and the arts) column
performer (esp. of a traditional art)
classical theatre; classical theater
solo comedian; standup comedian; comedian not part of a duo, trio, etc.
handicrafts; hand-crafted goods
liberal arts college; teachers' college
(system of) admitting students on the basis on their non-academic abilities (e.g. sports, art; as opposed to exam results)
one's specialty performance; one's repertoire
(excelling in) one area or skill; (being skilled or gifted in) one certain area
(the art of) storytelling
entertainment reporter; entertainment journalist; gossip columnist
performing art; technique (in a performing art)
academy of arts; arts academy
tricks performed with the feet
versatile; multi-talented
art studies; science of art
geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period)
arts and crafts; artistic handicraft; fine and applied art
sacred art; religious art
cultivar; cultivated variety of a plant
spatial art; space art; plastic arts; formative arts
dilettantism; amateurism (in art)
piece of (artistic) pottery; ceramic work
unusual trick; rarely seen skill
talent and accomplishments; wisdom and works
one's party piece; parlor trick; hidden talent
music hall; entertainment hall
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
temporal art; art forms which unfold over time
oral literature; folklore
unaccomplished person; uninteresting person; nobody
handicraft object; piece of handicraft work
fallen geisha; geisha who prostitutes herself
entertainment section (of a newspaper); entertainment column
lacking the talent to do anything but eat
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
Nihon Bungeisha (publisher)
posing and moving the fingers as an art form; finger-tutting
secret technique; secret art
artistic and literary circles
useless person; good-for-nothing
agriculture and horticulture
(untalented) geisha who sells sex; geisha who steals money from sleeping travellers
art lover; lover of the arts
hot spring geisha; onsen geisha; geisha working in a hot spring resort
artists' colony; colony of artists
Tokyo University of the Arts
fallen geisha; geisha who prostitutes herself
geisha living and working in a restaurant, inn, etc. (as opposed to in a geisha house); in-house geisha
Kyoto Institute of Technology
dog that knows (does) tricks
The Japan Writers' Association; JWA
talentless and incompetent; incompetent and unaccomplished
Tokyo Polytechnic University
Kyoto University of Art and Design
Tohoku University of Art & Design
a jack of all trades is a master of none
horticultural science; horticulture
Shugei Shuchiin School (ca 829CE)
artistic and literary circles
street performance (in the Edo period)
art for life's sake; l'art pour la vie
art is long, life is short; ars longa, vita brevis
Tokyo University of Arts (abbr)
circus equestrian-trick performer
spatiotemporal art; spatial-temporal art
Yamaguchi Gakugei University
Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences
geisha of loose morals; geisha who is easy to bed
Nagoya University of Arts
being able to live as an artist is no blessing
Kyoto University of the Arts
Kyoto City University of Arts
Nagoya College of Art & Design
Japan Popular Music Writers Association; JPM
Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts
trapeze artist; aerial artist
Art and Architecture School of Waseda University
Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
Kawaguchi Art School of Waseda University
Kyoto University of Arts and Crafts
Ariake College of Education and the Arts
Nippon Photography Institute; NPI
Royal Horticultural Society; RHS
Yoshimoto New Star Creation (comedy school established by Yoshimoto Kogyo); Yoshimoto Academy; NSC
Takarazuka University of Art and Design
Yamano College of Aesthetics
British Royal Gardening Society
Kyushu Institute of Design
the Royal Academy of Arts (UK); The Academy
Tōhō Gakuen College of Drama and Music
department of design; faculty of design
geisha belonging to a call-office (usually a skilled geisha)
Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
Tokyo Gakugei University (abbr.)
Tokyo Nohgei Agricultural High School
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Act on the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries
Tokoname Ceramic-Art Laboratory
pomology; fruit crop science
Geibi Line (Hiroshima-North Okayama railway)
calligraphic art; calligraphy (as an art)
Traditional Arts School of Kyoto; TASK
ordinance liberating all geisha and prostitutes (1872)
floriculture; flower gardening
performance at a drinking party; party trick
horticultural agriculture
mingeishi (type of washi)
arboriculture; tree growing
arboriculture; tree growing
being a jack of all trades and master of none
Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)
geisha from the Fukagawa red-light district in Edo