Nihon Buyo, which is a traditional Japanese dance, consists of several mediums including dance, music and costume. The dance creates multiple effects including meaning, sense and spectacle using these mediums. These effects can represent concrete meaning just as words do, and this meaning expresses in the lyrics of the accompanying music. The concrete meaning of the dance gestures can be derived from the meaning of the lyrics. In short, the meaning of Nihon Buyo has been considered to be equivalent to the meaning in the lyrics of the accompanying music. In this paper, we analyze another process of generating concrete meaning in Nihon Buyo. We look at “Musume-Doujouji (1753)” which is one of the masterpieces of Nihon Buyo, as an example. First we assume that there is a structure in which various relations between the mediums and the effects exist. Then we indicate that the process of generating meaning is not as simple as interpreting from lyrics to gesture, but has a more complicated system in this structure. Last, we conclude that the concrete meaning of Nihon Buyo is not equal to the meaning of lyrics but is generated from the system of the structure. In this sense, the concrete meaning of lyrics can be expressed by the gestures. This paper illuminates the historical change of Nihon Buyo and its method of representation.