Illustration: In a neighborhood library’s children’s corner, a seated storyteller narrates from a small wooden kamishibai stage. The exposed picture shows a runaway rice ball rolling downhill toward a startled rabbit; the next picture, partly withdrawn behind it, continues the same chase.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

語かたり

katari

narration

Example sentences

このほか語かたりが入はいる曲きょくは非常ひじょうに少すくない。
Other than that, pieces that have narratives are extremely rare.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
「語かたり」よりも「歌うた」の要素ようそがきわめてつよい。
The element of song is much stronger than that of narration.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
この映画えいがは静しずかな語かたりで始はじまる。
This film begins with quiet narration.
Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 語

語word; speechOnゴKunかたる・かたらう

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