地じ狂きょう言げん

noun

local amateur kabuki performance

Historical term for amateur kabuki performances put on by local communities, especially popular from the late Edo period through the early Meiji period. Often contrasted with professional kabuki (大芝居).

See also: 地芝居

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい後こう期き、村むらの鎮ちん守じゅの祭まつりで地じ狂きょう言げんがよく上じょう演えんされた。

  In the late Edo period, local amateur kabuki performances were often staged at village shrine festivals.

• 地じ狂きょう言げんは、地じ芝しば居いとも呼よばれ、地ち域いきの人ひと々びとによって演えんじられた。

  Jikyōgen, also called jishibai, was performed by local people.