Meanings

amateur kabuki performed at local festivals

love song

meaning of a song

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

Wakayama (city, prefecture)

Kokin Wakashū (Heian-period collection of poetry)

six immortals of poetry

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

tanka magazine

work song

adaptation of a famous poem

singing while playing (the guitar, piano, etc.)

utagoe coffeehouse

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

matching game played with clam shells with stanzas of waka written on them

popular singer

Waka Office

live singing

(US) state song

kabuki-e