唄

Vocabulary (12)

• 地歌

  じうた

  (style of) folk song

• 盆踊り唄

  ぼんおどりうた

  Bon Festival dance song

• リンゴの唄

  リンゴのうた

  Ringo no uta (1946 song; the first post-war hit song)

• 雨に唄えば

  あめにうたえば

  Singin' in the Rain (1952 film and song)

• 長唄

  ながうた

  long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)

• 子守り唄

  こもりうた

  lullaby

• 唄葉

  ばいよう

  palm-leaf manuscript

• 流行り唄

  はやりうた

  popular song

• 端唄

  はうた

  short love song (popular in late Edo period)

• 唄方

  うたかた

  singer in a nagauta performance

• 陰唄

  かげうた

  song sung behind the scenes (kabuki)

• 下座唄

  げざうた

  song sung behind the scenes (kabuki)