[ち, chi] (n) (1) (abbr) ground; land; earth; soil; (2) the region in question; the local area; (3) skin; (4) texture; fabric; material; weave; (5) base; background; (6) one's true nature; (7) narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story); (8) real life; actuality; (9) (in the game of go) captured territory; (10) (See 地謡) noh chorus; (11) (in Japanese dance) accompaniment music; (12) (in Japanese music) basic phrase (usu. repetitive); (13) base part (of multiple shamisens) #208
[ゆか, yuka] (n) (1) floor; (2) stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); (3) dining platform built across a river; (P) #2631
[nare-shon] (n) narration; (P) #3770
[nare-ta-] (n) narrator; (P) #4053
[はなす, hanasu] (v5s, vt) (1) to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat; (2) to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss; (3) to speak (a language); (P) #5623
[たゆう, tayuu] (n) (1) (See 能太夫) high-ranking Noh actor; (2) head of a school of noh performance; (3) high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); (4) (See 浄瑠璃, 万歳・まんざい) joruri narrator; manzai narrator; (5) (See 女形) female role actor in kabuki; (6) (See 御師) low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine; (7) (太夫 only) lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) #6515
[わしゃ, washa] (n) narrator; speaker #9824
[bara-do] (n) (1) ballade (narrative poetry, musical composition) (fre #10275
[ちゅうしんぐら, chuushingura] (n) (See 浄瑠璃) performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) #12314
[せつわ, setsuwa] (n, vs) tale; narrative #17582
[deiatessaron] (n) (obsc) diatessaron (the four Gospels woven into a single narrative)
[narata-ju] (n) narratage
[naratoroji-] (n) narratology
[nare] (n) (abbr) (See ナレーション) narration; narrator
[かわちおんど, kawachiondo] (n) narrative style of Bon dance song from eastern Osaka (often with improvised lyrics)
[かつべん, katsuben] (n) narrator in Japanese silent cinema
[かんせつわほう, kansetsuwahou] (n) { ling } indirect speech; indirect narration
[ぎだゆうぶし, gidayuubushi] (n) (See 義太夫) gidayuu ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater)
[かたりて, katarite] (n) speaker; narrator; reciter; (P)
[かたりべ, kataribe] (n) (professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
[かたりもの, katarimono] (n) a narrative
[こうだんぼん, koudanbon] (n) book of oral narratives; story book
[わたくししょうせつ;ししょうせつ, watakushishousetsu ; shishousetsu] (n) novel narrated in the first person
[じょす, josu] (v5s, vt) (1) (See 叙する) to relate; to narrate; to describe; (2) to confer (a rank)
[じょする, josuru] (vs-s, vt) (1) to relate; to narrate; to describe; (2) to confer (a rank)
[じょじ, joji] (n) narration; description
[じょじてき, jojiteki] (n) epic (e.g. poem); descriptive; narrative
[じょじぶん, jojibun] (n) narration; description
[おんなべんし, onnabenshi] (n) female narrator in a silent movie theatre
[ときわず;ときわづ, tokiwazu ; tokiwadu] (n) (abbr) (See 常磐津節) style of joruri narrative used for kabuki dances
[ときわずぶし, tokiwazubushi] (n) (See 浄瑠璃) style of joruri narrative used for kabuki dances
[みのうえばなし, minouebanashi] (exp, n) life story; personal narrative; story of one's life
[にんぎょうじょうるり, ningyoujoururi] (n) (1) (See 浄瑠璃) Japanese puppet theatre in which a narrative is accompanied by a shamisen; (2) (See 文楽) older and more neutral name for bunraku
[きよもと, kiyomoto] (n) (See 清元節) type of Joruri narrative performance
[きよもとぶし, kiyomotobushi] (n) (See 浄瑠璃) style of joruri narrative performance
[せつわぶんがく, setsuwabungaku] (n) legendary literature; narrative literature
[じのぶん, jinobun] (n) descriptive (narrative) part
[ふ, fu] (n) (1) poem; (2) (See 六義・1) narrative (style of the Shi Jing); (3) classical Chinese rhymed prose
[べんし, benshi] (n) (1) lecturer; rhetorician; orator; (2) narrator in Japanese silent cinema; film interpreter
[なにわぶし, naniwabushi] (n) naniwabushi; var. of sung narrative popular during the Edo period
[わほう, wahou] (n) narration
[わくものがたり, wakumonogatari] (n) frame story; frame narrative; frame tale