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Ōmihachiman
is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
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Ōtomo no Satehiko
Ōtomo no Satehiko (大伴挾手彦) was a Japanese general.
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Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.
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Benkei
Saito Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶, 1155–1189), popularly called Benkei, was a Japanese warrior monk (sōhei) who lived in the latter years of the 1Heian Period (794-1185).
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Bianzhong
Bianzhong (pronounced) is an ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells, played melodically.
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Bon Festival
or just is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors.
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Boss (architecture)
In architecture, a boss is a knob or protrusion of stone or wood.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Buddhist temples in Japan
Buddhist temples are, together with Shinto shrines, considered to be among the most numerous, famous, and important religious buildings in Japan.
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Chion-in
in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan is the headquarters of the Jōdo-shū (Pure Land Sect) founded by Hōnen (1133–1212), who proclaimed that sentient beings are reborn in Amida Buddha's Western Paradise (Pure Land) by reciting the nembutsu, Amida Buddha's name.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Common Era
Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.
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Conch (instrument)
Conch, or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a musical instrument (often a signal instrument), a wind instrument that is made from a seashell (conch), the shell of several different kinds of very large sea snails.
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Dōjō-ji
is a Tendai school Buddhist temple in Hidakagawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
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Dōjōji (Noh play)
is a famous Noh play of the fourth category ("miscellaneous"), of unknown authorship.
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Dōtaku
are Japanese bells smelted from relatively thin bronze and richly decorated.
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Diyu
Diyu is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.
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Donald Keene
Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 18, 1922) is an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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Genpei War
The (1180–1185) was a conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan.
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Goguryeo
Goguryeo (37 BCE–668 CE), also called Goryeo was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Manchuria.
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Gong
A gong (from Malay: gong;; ra; គង - Kong; ฆ้อง Khong; cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.
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Hōkō-ji (Kyoto)
is a temple in Kyoto, Japan, dating from the 16th century.
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Headquarters of the United Nations
The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.
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HighBeam Research
HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.
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Higo Province
was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.
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Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan.
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Idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.
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Jacob Druckman
Jacob Raphael Druckman (June 26, 1928 – May 24, 1996) was an American composer born in Philadelphia.
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Japanese New Year
The is an annual festival with its own customs.
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Japanese Peace Bell
The Japanese Peace Bell is a United Nations peace symbol.
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Kane (instrument)
The is a type of dish-shaped bell from Japan.
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Kanji
Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.
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Kiyohime
According to Japanese folklore, (or just Kiyo) was the daughter (or in some versions, the widow) of a village headman or landlord named Shōji, on the Hidaka riverbank.
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Little Boy
"Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
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Manpuku-ji
is a temple located in Uji, Kyoto.
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Matthew C. Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a Commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War (1846–48).
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Mii-dera
, formally called, is a Buddhist temple in Japan located at the foot of Mount Hiei, in the city of Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture.
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Mount Hiei
is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto, lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures, Japan.
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My Lord Bag of Rice
"My Lord Bag of Rice" (in Japanese, Tawara Tōda) is a fairy tale about a hero who kills a giant centipede, Ōmukade, to help a Japanese dragon princess, and is rewarded in her underwater Ryūgū-jō 龍宮城 "dragon palace castle".
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Myōshin-ji
is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, and head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism.
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Nara period
The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794.
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Nihon Shoki
The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.
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Noh
, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent", is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century.
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of Knoxville.
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Overtone
An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound.
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Padma (attribute)
Padma (Nelumbo nucifera, the sacred lotus) is an aquatic plant that plays a central role in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism.
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Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Perry Expedition
The Perry Expedition was a diplomatic and military expedition to Bakumatsu period Japan, involving two separate trips by warships of the United States Navy, which took place during 1853–54.
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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), was established, according to its Royal Charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the Society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.
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Ryōan-ji
is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan.
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Ryūjin
, which in some traditions is equivalent to Ōwatatsumi, was the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.
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Sendai
is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, the largest city in the Tōhoku region, and the second largest city north of Tokyo.
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Shōgun
The was the military dictator of Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions).
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Shōrō
The two main types of bell tower in Japan The or is the bell tower of a Buddhist temple in Japan, housing the temple's.
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Shinto shrine
A is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami.
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Siege of Osaka
The was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Sutra
A sutra (Sanskrit: IAST: sūtra; Pali: sutta) is a religious discourse (teaching) in text form originating from the spiritual traditions of India, particularly Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
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Suzu
is a round, hollow Japanese Shinto bell that contains pellets that sound when agitated.
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Theatrical property
A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or on screen by actors during a performance or screen production.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
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Toshiro Mayuzumi
Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛 敏郎 Mayuzumi Toshirō; 20 February 1929, in Yokohama – 10 April 1997, in Kawasaki) was a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques.
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Toyotomi Hideyori
was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who first united all of Japan.
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
was a preeminent daimyō, warrior, general, samurai, and politician of the Sengoku period who is regarded as Japan's second "great unifier".
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United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.
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Uranium-235
Uranium-235 (235U) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium.
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USS Boston (CA-69)
USS Boston (CA-69/CAG-1), a heavy cruiser, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts.
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USS Pasadena (CL-65)
USS Pasadena (CL–65), a light cruiser of the United States Navy, the second vessel to carry the name.
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Wabi-sabi
In traditional Japanese aesthetics, is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.
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World peace
World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of happiness, freedom and peace within and among all people and nations on earth.
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World Peace Bell Association
The World Peace Bell Association (WPBA) is a Japanese organisation which attempts to raise awareness of the World peace movement by casting and installing Japanese temple bells in locations around the world.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yamato period
The is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato Province.
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Yayoi period
The is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC–300 AD.
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1964 Summer Olympics
The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 10 to 24 October 1964.
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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonshō
