SHITE Happy at last and well-starred, Now comes the eve of betrothal: We meet for the wine-cup.
SHITE A seed-pod void of the seed, We had no meeting together.
SHITE There is at the root of hell No distinction between princes and commons; Wretched for me!
SHITE Look then, the old times are shown, Faint as the shadow-flower shows in the grass that bears it; And you've but a moon for lanthorn.
SHITE (supposedly invisible) It is a good service you have done, sir, A service that spreads in two worlds, And binds up an ancient love That was stretched out between them.
SHITE (In the form of an old priest) I could tell that priest a thing or two.
The fourth category includes a grab bag of dramas often focusing on an historical episode or on the shite being driven to madness by guilt or, in the case of a woman, jealousy.
There are "god plays," in which the shite is a supernatural spirit, frequently disguised, whose divinity is made manifest during the final dance.
On first appearance theshite ordinarily is intended to be a human form, albeit often a troubled one, but as his tale unfolds he becomes not so much an actual being as the personification of a soul.
As the shite sings, the knowing waki serves as confessor and provides a foil for any dialogue.
In "warrior plays," the shite may be a martial figure from the Kamakura era who speaks in universal terms about his own personal tragedy.
Prefiguring the Shakespearean soliloquy, the confessional song of the shite speaks for the universal consciousness as he pours out his tortured inner emotions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
