Illustration: Within a temporary fairground booth, an acrobat balances a tower of shallow bowls on their forehead while standing on a small wooden platform. Visitors in everyday Edo clothing crowd behind a low rope, craning their necks toward the improbable display.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

見み世せ物もの

misemono

show, spectacle

Example sentences

  1. 当時とうじはこのような見世物みせものが流行はやっていた。

    The shows of that kind were popular in those days.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. この演目えんもくが物語性ものがたりせいを重視じゅうししない、本質的ほんしつてきに見世物みせものである所以ゆえんである。

    This is because the play is essentially written as an attraction and does not emphasize narrativity.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 鳥とりを使つかったおみくじの見世物みせものをする人ひとは日本にっぽんに数人すうにんしかいないといわれる。

    It is said that only a few people in Japan put on shows in which birds draw fortunes.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 見世物

  • 見see; lookOnケンKunみる・みえる・みせる
  • 世generation; worldOnセイ・セ・ソウKunよ
  • 物thing; objectOnブツ・モツKunもの・もの-

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