Finale - Oozume

A term used in theater scripts. It refers to the final scene or act where the plot of a play is resolved. During the Edo period, when a Kabuki play was generally composed of two parts, the first (jidaimono) and the second (sewamono), the end of the first part was called o-tsume and the end of the second part was called o-giri (Ogiri), but later it simply came to mean the final act of a play, and the word came to be used outside of Kabuki as well. It has since become an everyday word meaning the end of something, and is used in expressions such as "the trial is nearing its o-tsume."

[Toshiaki Matsui]

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演劇脚本用語。戯曲の筋立てがすべて解決する最後の場面や幕をいう。江戸時代、歌舞伎(かぶき)の一脚本が一番目（時代物）と二番目（世話物）の2部で構成されるのを原則としていたころは、一番目の最後を大詰、二番目の最後を大切(おおぎり)（大喜利(おおぎり)）と区別してよんだが、のちには単に一脚本の最終幕をさすようになり、歌舞伎以外でも用いられる語になった。転じて物事の最後を意味する日常語になり、「裁判も大詰に近づいた」というように用いられる。

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