noun:

• gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient Japan - archaism

noun:

• kabuki play; kabuki drama

noun:

• god of waka; god of song; muse ➜ 和歌

noun:

• poetry style; poetry rules

noun:

• woman who entertains customers with song and dance ➜ 芸者

noun:

• cards with stanzas of waka written on them
• card-matching game played with these cards

noun:

• kabuki dance ➜ 所作事

noun:

• poetry; versification

noun:

• musician (esp. Gagaku)

noun:

• flute mouthpiece
• poetic style

noun:

• singer; vocalist
• nagauta singer (in kabuki) ➜ 長唄
• singer of Noh chants ➜ 謡

noun:

• woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen; geisha who sings at parties

noun:

• popular song program on radio or television

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen

noun:

• words mainly used in songs or poetry ➜ 歌語

noun:

• manuscript of poem

noun:

• words mainly used in songs or poetry ➜ 歌詞【うたことば】

noun:

• mood of a poem; poet's mood when writing

noun:

• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) - obscure term ➜ 時鳥

noun:

• utai (noh chant) piece for recitation ➜ 歌物

noun:

• repertoire of 18 kabuki plays

noun:

• book of poems

noun:

• early kabuki dance

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢節 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢節 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen ➜ うた沢

noun:

• song collection; collection of lieder