歌

(US) state song

Organization name

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Triodion; Lenten Triodion

Organization name

Wakayama Shin-ai University

Organization name

Wakayama Medical University

Organization name

Wakayama Prefectural Police (abbr)

lyric songs; sentimental ballads

to sing praises to

lament; elegy; dirge; funeral song

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

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

popular singer; pop idol

student song; academic song

ballad found in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki

Organization name

Japan Popular Music Writers Association; JPM

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Song of Everlasting Sorrow (poem by Bai Juyi); Song of Everlasting Regret; Chang Hen Ge

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Grass Is Singing (novel by Doris Lessing)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

metaphorical poem (of the Man'yōshū)

metaphorical form (of waka)

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

(sung) requiem

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)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

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