幕まく

noun

curtain; stage curtain; screen

Most typically a stage curtain or large hanging cloth/screen, rather than an ordinary window curtain.

• 劇げき場じょうの舞ぶ台たいに赤あかい幕まくが掛かかっている。

  A red curtain is hanging on the theater stage.

noun, counter

act in a play; act; counter for acts

Used for divisions of a play or performance, and as a counter in expressions such as 三幕 and 第一幕.

• この芝しば居いは三さん幕まくから成なる。

  This play consists of three acts.

• 第だい二に幕まくで主しゅ人じん公こうが故こ郷きょうに戻もどる。

  In the second act, the protagonist returns to his hometown.

noun

falling of the curtain; end of a scene

Refers to the curtain coming down and, by extension, the close of a scene or act in a performance.

• 拍はく手しゅの中なか、静しずかに幕まくが下おりた。

  Amid applause, the curtain quietly fell.

noun

end; close; conclusion

Figurative use for the end of an event, period, struggle, negotiation, or story; common in phrases like 幕を閉じる and 幕が下りる.

• 長ながい交こう渉しょうはようやく幕まくを閉とじた。

  The long negotiations finally came to a close.

noun

one's place; one's turn; role to play; occasion for involvement

Often used in fixed expressions such as 出る幕ではない or 出る幕がない, meaning that someone has no appropriate role, turn, or place to step in.

• これは家か族ぞくの問もん題だいで、私わたしの出でる幕まくではない。

  This is a family matter, and it is not my place to get involved.

• 専せん門もん家かがそろっていたので、私わたしの出でる幕まくはなかった。

  Since all the specialists were there, there was no role for me to play.

noun

makuuchi; top sumo division

Sumo-specific shorthand for 幕内, the top division; outside sumo contexts, use the fuller term 幕内 for clarity.

See also: 幕内

• 相撲すもうの記き事じでは、「幕まく」が幕まく内うちを指さすことがある。

  In sumo articles, maku can refer to the top division, makuuchi.