to make a speech;  to address
 (professional) storyteller;  hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
 to pass down (a story) from generation to generation;  to hand down
 to say everything one wants to say;  to exhaust a topic
 to hand down;  to pass on (story or tradition)
 way of reciting;  way of telling a story
 narrator;  storyteller;  reciter
 story;  topic (on everyone's lips);  (the stuff of) legend
 to talk the night away;  to talk all night
 to say repeatedly (often by many people);  to say over and over again
 story;  tale;  unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting