Meanings

gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced

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

song sung door-to-door

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

first line (of a poem)

lament

iroha karuta

katauta

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

traditional Japanese poem with six verses in a 5-7-7-5-7-7 moraic pattern

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

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)

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

kabuki play

young men's kabuki

kabuki play

early kabuki dance

harlots' kabuki

Okuni kabuki

kabuki dance