kabuki 的詞源

1896年，源自日本，指的是流行劇場（與皮影戲或抒情 Noh 劇相對）。

Kabuki comes from the verb 'kabuku', meaning 'to deviate from the normal manners and customs, to do something absurd.' Today kabuki is performed only by men, but the first kabuki performance was given in about 1603 by a girl, a shrine maiden of Kyoto named O-kuni, who 'deviated from the normal customs' by dressing as a man and entertaining the public with satirical dances in the grounds of the Kitano shrine. [Toshie M. Evans, "A Dictionary of Japanese Loanwords," 1997]

歌舞伎源自動詞“kabuku”，意爲“偏離正常禮儀和習俗，做出荒謬的事情”。今天，歌舞伎只由男性表演，但最初的歌舞伎表演是由一位名叫大國的京都神社巫女在1603年左右進行的，她“偏離了正常的習俗”，扮成男人並在北野神社的場地上用諷刺性的舞蹈娛樂公衆。[Toshie M. Evans，“日語藉詞詞典”，1997]

另一種詞源 [Barnhart，OED] 是它的字面意思是“歌舞藝術”，由 ka “歌曲”+ bu “舞蹈”+ ki “藝術，技巧”組成。