ruri
★ Common
Noun
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1. jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater) — explanation
1. quartz
2. glass
1. Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)
1. type of jōruri recitation
1. Siberian blue robin (Luscinia cyane)
1. blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)
1. blue admiral (species of nymphalid butterfly, Kaniska canace)
1. lapis lazuli blue; bright blue
1. red-flanked bluetail (species of flycatcher, Tarsiger cyanurus)