歌

singer

song

poet (of tanka poems)

kabuki

tanka

collection of waka poems

opera

national anthem

enka

melody

waka

song lyrics

to sing

singing voice

karuta

song

song

poetry contest

school song

kayōkyoku

Japanese and Chinese poetry

song of praise

popular song

singing

to sing at the top of one's voice

singer

sacred song

war song

singing and dancing

poetry circles

parody (of a song)

elegy

writing songs or poems

Imperial New Year's Poetry Reading

original verse poem

court song sung at religious services and celebratory events

old Kanto-area folk songs

club song

company song

original song

alto (voice or singer)

opera singer

pop idol

woman who entertains customers with song and dance

flute mouthpiece

Japanese poem

kouta (Heian-era court lady's song accompanying the men's ōuta)

spirit of a poem

adaptation of a famous poem

poetry

to sing responsively

popular singer

Wakayama (city, prefecture)

manner of singing

excellent poem

one's song repertoire

tanka appendage to a long poem

new singer

traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven

loud singing

renga (early Japanese poetry form)

to start singing

meaning of a song

work song

singing matches

acrostic poem in which consecutive morae form the disguised name of an animal, plant, place, etc.

an utai (noh chant) piece for recitation

book of poems

Wakayama Prefecture (Kinki area)

var. of folksong

anti-war song

theme song

poetry style

(US) state song

spinning song

selection of poems

student song

old poem (esp. waka)

Wakayama University

kumeuta

loud singing

Waka Office

essay on tanka poetry

quintessential enka

name of poem

verse form from the Heian and Kamakura periods consisting of 4 lines each divided into two parts of 7 and 5 syllables

love song

popular song

god of waka

live singing

children's song

to sing energetically

utagaruta

metaphorical poem (of the Man'yōshū)

plain form (of waka)

allusive form (of waka)

iroha poem

first line (of a poem)

singer

to break into song

poem by the emperor or a member of the imperial family

to sing from memory

counting song

popular singer

versification

moral poem

art of tanka poetry

revolutionary song

hymn

word mainly used in tanka

cheering song

mood of a poem

renga poet

rice-planting song

collection of short Heian-period tales in the form of poems

bawdy song

popular song program on radio or television

the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)

poetic style

patriotic song

Kokin Wakashū (Heian-period collection of poetry)

to sing a tune

opera house

work song

kagura song

six immortals of poetry

iroha karuta

enka singer

enka singer

to put into song

ode in reply

love song

one's skill as a singer

song sung door-to-door

Wakayama Prefectural Police (abbr)

opera company

splendid tanka

song collection

poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

dirge

form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

singing stream

to rejoice and sing

annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

Triodion

type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period)

sawyer's song (a traditional woodcutters' work song)

poets can stay in one place and still know all the famous sights

The Grass Is Singing (novel by Doris Lessing)