Kyokumochi

Japanese: 曲持 - きょくもち
Kyokumochi
〘 noun 〙 In acrobatics, lifting heavy objects or people with the hands, feet, shoulders, or stomach and manipulating them freely. ※Nagauta: Eight Scenes of the Leaping Figures (1813) Sarashi Onna no Rakugan (Omi no Okane) "The man who holds the kabuto in the test of strength must overcome even stones, bags of rice, or whatever."

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Japanese:
〘名〙 曲芸として、手、足、肩、腹などで重い物や人を持ち上げて自由にあやつること。※長唄・閏姿八景(1813)晒女の落雁(近江のおかね)「力試(だめ)しの曲持ちは、石でもごんせ、俵でも御座れ御座れに差切って」

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