漫才

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★★★ 4/5 casual まんざいmanzai
読み まんざい
ローマ字 manzai
漢字の分解 漫 (man) — free, loose, random, rambling; 才 (sai) — talent, ability, wit
発音 /man.zai/

意味

Manzai; a Japanese comedic performance by a duo — typically a straight man (ツッコミ) and a funny man (ボケ) — who exchange rapid-fire banter and absurdist scenarios.

Manzai is the dominant form of stand-up comedy in Japan, with its heartland in Osaka (上方漫才, Kamigata manzai). The fundamental dynamic is the ボケ (boke, the one who makes absurd statements) and ツッコミ (tsukkomi, the one who corrects or reacts). Major annual competitions such as M-1 グランプリ have elevated the art form to a national institution. Contemporary manzai encompasses a wide range of styles from slapstick to wordplay to social commentary.

例文

  1. 漫才コンテストで優勝した若手コンビは一夜にして全国区の人気者となった。
  2. 漫才の基本形式はボケとツッコミの掛け合いであり、間とテンポが命だ。
  3. 上方漫才の伝統を継承しながら新しい笑いを模索する芸人たちが増えている。

使い方ガイド

場面: comedy, entertainment, television, stage, popular culture

トーン: lively

起源と歴史

Originally written 万歳 (manzai, literally 'ten thousand years/long life'), a ritual comic performance that heralded the New Year. Over time the entertainment form evolved and was rewritten as 漫才, using characters that suggest 'free-flowing talent/wit,' reflecting its shift from ritual to popular comedy.

文化的背景

時代: Meiji–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: General

関連フレーズ

仮名 Kana; the Japanese phonetic syllabary comprising hiragana and katakana, developed from simplified Chinese characters. 侘び寂び Wabi-sabi; a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, incompleteness, and transience. An appreciation for the humble, weathered, and irregular. 俳句 Haiku; a traditional Japanese poem of 17 syllables in three lines (5-7-5), typically evoking nature, a season, and a single vivid moment. 入門 Introduction; a primer or entry into a field of study. Also: the formal act of becoming a disciple under a master in a traditional art. 和歌 Waka; traditional Japanese poetry, particularly the tanka form with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure. The classical poetic tradition of Japan as distinguished from Chinese verse. 和紙 Washi; traditional handmade Japanese paper crafted from plant fibres such as kozo (mulberry). A material central to Japanese literary, artistic, and cultural heritage. 四字熟語 A four-character idiom; a compound of four kanji forming a fixed idiomatic expression, often of Chinese origin. Known in English as yojijukugo. 常用漢字 Jōyō kanji; the official list of commonly used Chinese characters in contemporary Japanese.
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