下手の長談義

へたのながだんぎ

Brevity is the soul of wit

談義

だんぎ

discussion, discourse

お談義

おだんぎ

lecture (i.e. an admonishment), sermon

談義所

だんぎしょ

Buddhist seminary

談義本

だんぎぼん

type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

床屋談義

とこやだんぎ

barbershop talk

左義長

さぎちょう

burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)

談

だん

talk, story, conversation

義義

ぎぎ ギギ

forktail bullhead (species of catfish, Pelteobagrus nudiceps)

清談

せいだん

Qingtan (Taoist-related movement in ancient China)

画談

がだん

discussions on art and painting

用談

ようだん

business conversation

軍談

ぐんだん

war story

俗談

ぞくだん

common talk, worldly conversation

瑣談

さだん

overly-detailed and tedious conversation, monotonous talk

法談

ほうだん

Buddhist sermon

要談

ようだん

important talk

芸談

げいだん

talk about art

鼎談

ていだん

tripartite (three man) talk