歌

song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians)

to put into song; to express in verse

to sing (a song) many times; to practice (a song) repeatedly

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Marines' Hymn

to sing praises to

(sung) requiem

Card games

karuta gathering (for playing uta-garuta)

かるた会 only; Card games

competitive karuta association

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

slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)

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

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)

Medicine

kabuki syndrome; kabuki makeup syndrome

amateur kabuki performed at local festivals

Proverb

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

singing while playing (the guitar, piano, etc.); singing to one's own accompaniment

popular singer; pop idol

kabuki-e; shibai-e; kabuki ukiyo-e print

ballad found in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki

Organization name

Japan Popular Music Writers Association; JPM

Organization name

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Triodion; Lenten Triodion

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Grass Is Singing (novel by Doris Lessing)

Organization name

Wakayama Shin-ai University

Organization name

Wakayama Medical University

Organization name

Wakayama Prefectural Police (abbr)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Ode to Joy (choral fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9)