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Buto definition

bo͝otō
A dance form developed in postwar Japan which rejects Eastern and Western dance conventions, expressing intense emotions through slow, controlled, and sometimes distorted movements.
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Origin of buto

  • Japanese butō short for (ankoku) butō dance (of darkness) bu dance (from Middle Chinese ʋuə̆´) tō to step on, stamp, tread (from Middle Chinese dap) probably also influenced by tō to stamp on, tread (from Middle Chinese tfiaw)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Buto Sentence Examples

  • Nekhbi, goddess of El Kab, represented the Upper or Southern Kingdom, which was also under the tutelage of the god Seth, the goddess Buto and the god Horus similarly presiding over the Lower Kingdom.

  • Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like Bubastis, Buto, for the goddesses Ubasti and Uto.

  • Busiris, Bubastis, Buto, more strictly represent Pusiri, Pubasti, Puto, cities sacred to these divinities.

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