明き: 17 Terms and Phrases

• 明き
• space
• room
• emptiness
• gap
• opening
• vacancy
• empty seat
• free time
• time to spare
• disuse
• unused thing

• 手明き
• not busy
• unengaged
• being free
• leisure

• 幕明き
• the rise of the curtain
• opening (of play)
• beginning (e.g. of an era)
• opening (festival, event, etc.)

• 明き巣
• prowler
• sneak thief
• cat burglar
• empty nest

• 明き家
• vacant house
• unoccupied house

• 明き店
• empty house
• empty shop

• 明き子
• Akiko

• 明き盲
• illiterate or blind person
• person who sees without understanding
• amaurosis

• 目明き
• one who can see
• educated or sensible person

• がら明き
• virtually empty
• quite empty
• inadequately defended
• defenseless
• defenceless

• 後ろ明き
• clothing with the opening at the back

• 穴明き銭
• perforated coin

• 穴明きチーズ
• cheese with holes in it (e.g. Swiss, Emmenthal)

• 目明き千人盲千人
• Some are wise and some are otherwise

• その上に君と僕を同時に追い出しちゃ、生徒の時間に明きが出来て、授業にさし支（つか）えるからな」
• Furthermore, if they fire me and you together, there will be blank spots in the schedule hours at the school.'

• 登場人物の多くが殺される狂言にふさわしく、幕明きから悪人関口多九郎が番人を殺しお家の重宝霊亀の香炉を盗む。
• It starts, typically for a Kyogen play in which most of the characters are killed, with a villain Takuro SEKIGUCHI who kills a guard and steals the family heirloom, an incense burner that dates from the Reiki period.

• 幕明きに高時が横を向いて座っているという当時としては斬新な演出は初演時の市川團十郎 (9代目) の工夫によるものである。
• An innovative production where Takatoki was sitting to the side as the drama was unfolded was based on the idea of Danjuro ICHIKAWA (the ninth generation) at the time of the first performance.