(n) annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)
(n) singing at the top of one's voice
(n) Negro spiritual
(n,adj-no) being surrounded by enemies on all sides
being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
(n) Chinese and Japanese poetry and instrumental music
poetry and music
literature and music
(n) girls' kabuki
(n) new singer
(n) tea-picking song
(n) (sung) requiem
(n) rice-planting song
(n) swan song
(n) doleful song
sad song
(n,vs) indignant lamentation over the evils of the times
(n) humming a tune
humming unconcernedly
(n,vs) loud singing
(v5u) to sing praises to
(n) sawyer's song
(n) popular song
(n) popular singer
singer of pop songs
(n) Wakayama prefecture (Kinki area)
(exp) to sing from memory
(n) plain form (of waka)
(n) allusive form (of waka)
(n) alto (voice or singer)
(n) opera singer
(n) revelry
(v5r) to sing energetically
to sing with abandon
(v1) to start singing
(v1,vt) to sing at the top of one's voice
to express one's feelings fully in a poem
(n) lyric sheet
card with the lyrics to a song