吟 - versify, singing, recital

close examination; careful investigation; close inspection; careful selection; inquiry; enquiry; scrutiny; testing

hum; meditation; painstaking elaboration on one's poem; groaning in distress

emotional chanting or recitation

to chant; to sing; to recite

torture (in the Edo-period)

(wandering) minstrel; troubadour

impromptu poem

hum; singing in a low voice

moaning; groaning

laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem

recitation (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); chanting; singing

ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60%