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Hikohachi

2

public bath; bathhouse

15

topic; subject; rumor; talk; tale; story

6

Buzaemon

2

to have a talk; to tell a story

1

street preaching

1

restaurant

1

kouta; traditional ballad accompanied by shamisen

1

cover charge; admission fee; room rental (fee)

1

gathering place; labour camp for drifters, criminals, etc. (Edo period); entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre)

1

Japanese witch-hazel (Hamamelis japonica)

2

Sanshoutei Karaku (1936.7-)

2

Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren); Tendai sect of Buddhism

1

bookrest; bookholder

1

desk

1

wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper

1

wooden clappers

1

to ring; to clang

1

scene change; cutaway; cut

1

small tool; gadget; (stage) properties; prop; prop master

1

lowering; sinking; depreciation; price fall; punch line (of a rakugo story); (arch.) sword strap

1

story about human nature or emotions (esp. rakugo); emotional rakugo story lacking a punch line

3

ghost story

5

to shed tears

1

spectators; onlookers; members of the audience

1

Hayashiya

2

cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky

1

samsara; cycle of death and rebirth; being reborn; reincarnation

1

four generations; fourth generation immigrant; yonsei; the fourth (e.g. George IV)

2

Tsuruyananboku

2

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

1

standing close together; bristling (with)

1

San'yuutei Enshou (1900.9.3-1979.9.3)

4

gesture; gesticulation; motion

1

style of jōruri narrative used for kabuki dances

1

San'yuuteienchou

1

audience; attendance; hearers

1

radio

2

broadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement

1

radio wave; reception; signal; saying strange things

1

all over the country

1

telecast

1

rakugo story teller; comic story teller

1

popular person; favorite; favourite

1

Kokontei Shinshou (1877.4.4-1926.1.29) (1890.6.28-1973.9.21)

2

Katsura Mikisuke (1957.3-)

2

Yanagiya Kosan (1915.1.2-2002.5.16)

2

Kokontei Shinchou (1938.3.10-2001.10.1)

2

Shoufukutei Shokaku (1918.8.17-1986.9.5)

2

United States and North Korea; American-North Korean

2