buffoonery / Short for 道化方. / Short for 道化師.

component, element

audience, the crowd

(kabuki) A play; a kabuki piece. / (theater) Kyogen, a humorous theater piece, frequently presented as a comic interlude in a program of noh performances.

a mask (cover for the face), especially a gauze mask / looks, facial features

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

to whistle

(archaic, possibly obsolete) a whistle (sound), a whistling sound

the clownish “whistling” mask used in 狂言 (kyōgen, “a farce performed between noh plays”, literally “crazy talk”)

whistling, making a whistling sound