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Welcome! And thanks all! both trans are right...

Posted By: MACK!
Date: MON, 8/11/03, 2:53 p.m.

In Response To: I just got into kabuki (gary)

: I just got into kabuki and i'm finding my back issues,
: but one thing that intrigues me, what is the
: translation of the kanji that scars her face?

Thanks for reading my work and for seeking out the books!
And my thanks to all the helpers on the board who so quickly and kindly answered your question.

It is a translation, so both interpretaions of Ki are correct right.
Ki also has even more connotations. It can mean something similar to our word for action, or even acting, or drama.

Or an actor of the first two preceeding Kanji. And it can refer to a class system as actors, and courtesans were of the same lower class. Some people familiar with the old Chinese versions of it could interpret the Ki to refer to a lower class courteson or jester type.

I had a Chinese professor who one read it as "the girl who sings and dances". They are Chinese characters which the Japanese have absorbed and added slightly mautated or evolved the translation to it.

Gary,

Read the first Kabuki collection, KABUKI: Circle of Blood to see the origin of the scars and the context of them and their history in the story. Please let me know what you think!
Kindest regards,
David

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