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Taiko

Index Taiko

are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. [1]

177 relations: Academy Awards, Accent (music), Agency for Cultural Affairs, Amaterasu, Ame-no-Uzume, Associated Press, Bachi, Bamboo, Bon Festival, Boston Marathon, Buddhist temples in Japan, Bugaku, Bull, Buraku Liberation League, Burakumin, California, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Tribune, China, Cirque du Soleil, Civil rights movement, Cowhide, Daihachi Oguchi, Den Tagayasu, Den-den daiko, Denver Taiko, Doctor of Philosophy, Dowel, Dralion, Drum rudiment, Drum stick, Drumhead, Dynamics (music), Edo period, Eisa (dance), Eitetsu Hayashi, Emperor Keitai, Emperor of Japan, Femme fatale, Francis Taylor Piggott, Fulcrum (drumming), Fundoshi, Gagaku, General MIDI, Gigaku, Grammy Award, Gunma Prefecture, Hachijō-jima, Hachimaki, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, ..., Haniwa, Happi, Hara (tanden), Hawaii, Holstein Friesian cattle, Honshu, Horse, Iki (aesthetics), Instrumentation (music), International Phonetic Alphabet, Internment of Japanese Americans, Iwate Prefecture, Izu Islands, Jack (device), Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japanese American National Museum, Japanese archipelago, Japanese Canadian internment, Japanese Canadians, Japanese folklore, Japanese language, Japantown, San Jose, Kabuki, Kagura, Kakegoe, Kakko (instrument), Kata, Kiai, Kimono, Kinnara Taiko, Kodō (taiko group), Kofun period, Kokura, Korea, Kuchi shōga, Lathe, Liberty Osaka, Lilac (color), List of musical symbols, Los Angeles Times, Ma (negative space), Magnolia liliiflora, Matched grip, Mattō, Ishikawa, Meiji period, Mitsubishi Eclipse, Miyake-jima, Museu de la Música de Barcelona, Music of Japan, Mystère (Cirque du Soleil), Nagano, Nagano, Naniwa-ku, Osaka, National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowship, New York City, Nihon Shoki, Nippon Taiko Foundation, Nisei, Noh, Oak (wine), Oedo Sukeroku Taiko, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa, Okinawa, Ondekoza, Onomatopoeia, Osaka, Osuwa Daiko, Percussion instrument, Pierre Cardin, Pitch (music), PJ Hirabayashi, Plucked string instrument, Portable shrine, Prefectures of Japan, Quercus alba, Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa, Rickshaw Man, Riley Lee, Roy Hirabayashi, Sado, Niigata, Sake, San Francisco Taiko Dojo, Sansei, Sawa District, Gunma, São Paulo, Screw, Seidō Kobayashi, Seiichi Tanaka, Sengoku period, Senshin Buddhist Temple, Shaku (unit), Shakuhachi, Shamisen, Shime-daiko, Shinobue, Shinto, Snare drum, South China, Sumo, Tabi, Taiko no Tatsujin, Taiko: Drum Master, TaikOz, Tōgaku, Tempo, The Daily Telegraph, The Japan Times, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Timbre, Tokyo, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tomoe, Traditional Japanese musical instruments, Trunk (botany), Tsuri-daiko, Turnbuckle, Unpitched percussion instrument, Wood splitting, World War II, Wyvern, Yatai-bayashi, Yūkaku, Zelkova serrata, Zen, 1964 Summer Olympics. Expand index (127 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Accent (music)

In music, an accent is an emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note or set of notes, or chord, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark.

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Agency for Cultural Affairs

The is a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

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Amaterasu

,, or is a deity of the Japanese myth cycle and also a major deity of the Shinto religion.

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Ame-no-Uzume

is the goddess of dawn, mirth and revelry in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bachi

Bachi (桴, 枹) (also batchi) is the name for the straight, wooden sticks used to play Japanese taiko drums, and also (written 撥) the plectrum for stringed instruments such as the shamisen and biwa.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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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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Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by several cities in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, 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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Bugaku

is the Japanese traditional dance that has been performed to select elites mostly in the Japanese imperial court, for over twelve hundred years.

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Bull

A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus (cattle).

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Buraku Liberation League

is one of the burakumin's rights groups in Japan.

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Burakumin

is an outcaste group at the bottom of the Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination and ostracism.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Cowhide

Cowhide is the natural, unbleached skin and hair of a cow.

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Daihachi Oguchi

was a Japanese drummer best known for popularizing taiko.

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Den Tagayasu

(1931–2001) was a taiko performer and founder of the group Ondekoza.

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Den-den daiko

The den-den daiko (でんでん太鼓) is a Japanese pellet drum made popular in the film The Karate Kid Part II.

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Denver Taiko

Denver Taiko is the fourth taiko group founded in North America and the first taiko ensemble outside of California, United States.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Dowel

A dowel is a cylindrical rod, usually made from wood, plastic, or metal.

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Dralion

Dralion (pronounced Drah-lee-on) was a touring production by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil.

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Drum rudiment

In percussion music, a rudiment is one of a number of relatively small patterns which form the foundation for more extended and complex drum patterns.

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Drum stick

A drumstick is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion.

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Drumhead

A drumhead or drum skin is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum.

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Dynamics (music)

In music, the dynamics of a piece is the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Eisa (dance)

Eisa (エイサー Eisaa) is a form of folk dance originating from the Okinawa Islands, Japan.

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Eitetsu Hayashi

(born February 2, 1952) is an acclaimed Japanese musician best known for his solo performance work in taiko.

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Emperor Keitai

, also known as Keitai-okimi, was the 26th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.

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Emperor of Japan

The Emperor of Japan is the head of the Imperial Family and the head of state of Japan.

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Femme fatale

A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations.

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Francis Taylor Piggott

Sir Francis Taylor Piggott (25 April 1852–12 March 1925) was a British jurist and author.

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Fulcrum (drumming)

Fulcrum is a drumming term.

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Fundoshi

is the traditional Japanese undergarment for adult males, made from a length of cotton.

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Gagaku

is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial Court in Kyoto for several centuries and today by Board of Ceremonies at Tokyo Imperial Palace.

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General MIDI

General MIDI or GM is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages.

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Gigaku

Gigaku, also known as, p.357-8, on gigaku men" (mask) refers to an extinct genre of masked drama-dance performance, imported into Japan during the Asuka period.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gunma Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region.

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Hachijō-jima

is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea.

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Hachimaki

A hachimaki (鉢巻, "helmet-scarf") is a stylized headband (bandana) in Japanese culture, usually made of red or white cloth, worn as a symbol of perseverance, effort, and/or courage by the wearer.

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Hakata-ku, Fukuoka

is a ward of the city of Fukuoka in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Haniwa

The are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan.

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Happi

A happi (法被, 半被) is a traditional Japanese straight-sleeved coat usually made of indigo or brown cotton and imprinted with a distinctive mon (crest).

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Hara (tanden)

Hara (腹: abdomen, should not be translated as "stomach" to avoid confusing it with the organ).

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Holstein Friesian cattle

Holstein Friesians (often shortened to Holsteins in North America, while the term Friesians is often used in the UK) are a breed of dairy cattle originating from the Dutch provinces of North Holland and Friesland, and Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany and Jutland.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.

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Iki (aesthetics)

Iki (いき, English: roughly "chic, stylish") is a concept in aesthetics, the basis of which is thought to have formed among urbane commoners (chōnin) in Edo in the Tokugawa period.

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Instrumentation (music)

In music, instrumentation is the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and the properties of those instruments individually.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

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Internment of Japanese Americans

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000Various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons.

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Iwate Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan.

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Izu Islands

The are a group of volcanic islands stretching south and east from the Izu Peninsula of Honshū, Japan.

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Jack (device)

A jack, screwjack or jackscrew is a mechanical device used as a lifting device to lift heavy loads or to apply great forces.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan International Cooperation Agency

The is a governmental agency that coordinates official development assistance (ODA) for the government of Japan.

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Japanese American National Museum

The is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans.

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Japanese archipelago

The is the group of islands that forms the country of Japan, and extends roughly from northeast to southwest along the northeastern coast of the Eurasia mainland, washing upon the northwestern shores of the Pacific Ocean.

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Japanese Canadian internment

In 1942, Japanese Canadian Internment occurred when over 22,000 Japanese Canadians from British Columbia were evacuated and interned in the name of ‘national security’.

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Japanese Canadians

are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry.

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Japanese folklore

Japanese folklore encompasses the folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Japantown, San Jose

Japantown (also known as Nihonmachi (ja: 日本町) or J Town) is a historic residential, commercial, and cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose.

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Kabuki

is a classical Japanese dance-drama.

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Kagura

Kagura (神楽, かぐら, "god-entertainment") is a Japanese word referring to a specific type of Shinto theatrical dance—with roots arguably predating those of Noh.

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Kakegoe

Kakegoe (掛け声) usually refers to shouts and calls used in performances of traditional Japanese music, Kabuki theatre, and in martial arts such as kendo.

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Kakko (instrument)

The is a Japanese double-headed drum.

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Kata

, a Japanese word, are detailed choreographed patterns of movements practiced either solo or in pairs.

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Kiai

is a Japanese term used in martial arts for the short shout uttered when performing an attacking move.

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Kimono

The is a traditional Japanese garment.

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Kinnara Taiko

Kinnara Taiko is a Japanese American drumming ensemble (playing taiko) based out of Senshin Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles, USA.

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Kodō (taiko group)

is a professional taiko drumming troupe.

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Kofun period

The is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538 AD, following the Yayoi period.

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Kokura

is an ancient castle town and the center of Kitakyushu, Japan, guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu with its suburb Moji.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Kuchi shōga

, also known as kuchi showa or kuchi shoka, is an educational musical notation for traditional Japanese drums, particularly the taiko and the tsuzumi.

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Lathe

A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.

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Liberty Osaka

Liberty Osaka (Osaka Human Rights Museum) is situated in Naniwa-ku, a ward in south Osaka City.

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Lilac (color)

Lilac is a color that is a pale violet tone representing the average color of most lilac flowers.

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List of musical symbols

Musical symbols are the marks and symbols, used since about the 13th century in the musical notation of musical scores, styles, and instruments to describe pitch, rhythm, tempo and, to some degree, its articulation (a composition in its fundamentals).

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Ma (negative space)

Ma (間) is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts." The spatial concept is experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation.

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Magnolia liliiflora

Magnolia liliiflora (variously known by many names, including Mulan magnolia, purple magnolia, red magnolia, lily magnolia, tulip magnolia, Jane magnolia and woody-orchid) is a small tree native to southwest China (in Sichuan and Yunnan), but cultivated for centuries elsewhere in China and also Japan.

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Matched grip

Matched grip (also known as parallel grip) is a method of holding drum sticks and mallets to play percussion instruments.

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Mattō, Ishikawa

was a city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Mitsubishi Eclipse

The Mitsubishi Eclipse is a sport compact car that was produced by Mitsubishi in four generations between 1989 and 2011.

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Miyake-jima

is an inhabited volcanic island in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea approximately southeast of Honshu, Japan.

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Museu de la Música de Barcelona

The Museu de la Música de Barcelona (Catalan naming, English: Music Museum of Barcelona) is a museum in Barcelona that houses a collection of musical instruments from around the world as well as biographical documents, from ancient civilisations to new technologies from the 21st century.

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Music of Japan

The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern.

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Mystère (Cirque du Soleil)

Mystère is one of seven resident Cirque du Soleil shows in Las Vegas, Nevada and performs in a custom theatre at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino.

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Nagano, Nagano

is the capital city of Nagano Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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Naniwa-ku, Osaka

is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Heritage Fellowship

The National Heritage Fellowship is a lifetime honor presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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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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Nippon Taiko Foundation

The, formerly referred to as  is a Japanese governmental organization and is the largest national organization of taiko performance groups active in Japan.

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Nisei

is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei).

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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 (wine)

Oak is used in winemaking to vary the color, flavor, tannin profile and texture of wine.

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Oedo Sukeroku Taiko

is a taiko group from Japan.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Okinawa, Okinawa

is the second-largest city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, following Naha, the capital city.

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Ondekoza

("demon drum group"), sometimes referred to as "Za Ondekoza", is a Japanese troupe specializing in taiko drumming.

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Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Osuwa Daiko

is a Japanese percussion group credited as the earliest groups to develop and perform the ensemble-style of taiko called kumi-daiko.

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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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Pierre Cardin

Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Cardin; 2 July 1922) is a French fashion designer. Cardin is known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical. He founded his fashion house in 1950 and introduced the "bubble dress" in 1954. He was designated UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1991. On 16 October 2009, Cardin was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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PJ Hirabayashi

Patti Jo "PJ" Hirabayashi is one of the pioneers of the North American Taiko movement.

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Plucked string instrument

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings.

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Portable shrine

In Buddhism, portable shrines were made so that devout travelers with nowhere to worship could carry their shrines with them.

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Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47, forming the first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.

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Quercus alba

Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America.

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Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan African music is characterised by a "strong rhythmic interest" that exhibits common characteristics in all regions of this vast territory, so that Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980) has described the many local approaches as constituting one main system.

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Rickshaw Man

is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.

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Riley Lee

Riley Kelly Lee (born 1951) is an American-born Australian-based shakuhachi player and teacher.

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Roy Hirabayashi

Roy Hirabayashi is a leader in North American taiko.

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Sado, Niigata

is a city located on in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

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Sake

, also spelled saké, also referred to as a Japanese rice wine, is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran.

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San Francisco Taiko Dojo

San Francisco Taiko Dojo, founded in 1968 by Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka, was the first taiko group in North America, and has been seen as the primary link between the Japanese and North American branches of the art form.

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Sansei

is a Japanese and American English term used in parts of the world such as South America and North America to specify the children of children born to ethnic Japanese in a new country of residence.

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Sawa District, Gunma

is a rural district located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Screw

A screw is a type of fastener, in some ways similar to a bolt (see Differentiation between bolt and screw below), typically made of metal, and characterized by a helical ridge, known as a male thread (external thread).

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Seidō Kobayashi

is the founder and current leader of the Tokyo-based taiko group, Oedo Sukeroku Taiko.

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Seiichi Tanaka

is the first Japan-trained teacher of kumidaiko, or taiko, in the United States and is largely regarded as the father of the art form in North America.

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Sengoku period

The is a period in Japanese history marked by social upheaval, political intrigue and near-constant military conflict.

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Senshin Buddhist Temple

The Senshin Buddhist Temple (formerly called the Senshin Buddhist Church) is a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles, California.

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Shaku (unit)

The or Japanese foot is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese chi, originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger (compare span).

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Shakuhachi

The is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown bamboo-flute.

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Shamisen

The, also, both words mean "three strings", is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian.

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Shime-daiko

The is a small Japanese drum.

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Shinobue

The shinobue (kanji: 篠笛; also called takebue (kanji: 竹笛)) in the context of Japanese traditional arts) is a Japanese transverse flute or fue that has a high-pitched sound. It is found in hayashi and nagauta ensembles, and plays important roles in noh and kabuki theatre music. It is heard in Shinto music such as kagura-den and in traditional Japanese folk songs. There are two styles: uta (song) and hayashi (festival). The uta is properly tuned to the Western scale, and can be played in ensembles or as a solo instrument. The hayashi is not in the correct pitch, because it is simply a piece of hollow bamboo with holes cut into it. It emits a very high-pitched sound, and is appropriate for the festival/folk music of Japan. Both shinobue flutes play a very important role in the Japanese theater.

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Shinto

or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.

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Snare drum

A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.

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South China

South China or Southern China is a geographical and cultural region that covers the southernmost part of China.

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Sumo

or sumo wrestling is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet.

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Tabi

are traditional Japanese socks dating back to the 15th century.

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Taiko no Tatsujin

, literally translating to English as Taiko Master, is a series of rhythm games created by Namco.

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Taiko: Drum Master

Taiko: Drum Master (English title), also known as Taiko no Tatsujin (太鼓の達人) in Japan is a drumming game made by Namco for the Sony PlayStation 2 based on the popular Japanese video game of the same name.

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TaikOz

Taikoz is a taiko ensemble based in Sydney, Australia.

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Tōgaku

Tōgaku (kanji: 唐樂; literally "Tang Dynasty music") is the Japanese pronunciation of an early style of music and dance from the Tang Dynasty in China.

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Tempo

In musical terminology, tempo ("time" in Italian; plural: tempi) is the speed or pace of a given piece.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Tokyo Imperial Palace

The is the primary residence of the Emperor of Japan.

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Tomoe

A tomoe (Japanese), commonly translated as 'comma,' is a Japanese heraldic symbol or crest describing a comma-like swirl.

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Traditional Japanese musical instruments

Traditional Japanese musical instruments are musical instruments used in the traditional and folk music of Japan.

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Trunk (botany)

In botany, the trunk (or bole) is the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, which is an important feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species.

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Tsuri-daiko

The tsuri-daiko (kanji: 釣り太鼓; also called gaku-daiko (kanji: 楽太鼓)) is a large Japanese hanging drum.

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Turnbuckle

A turnbuckle, stretching screw or bottlescrew is a device for adjusting the tension or length of ropes, cables, tie rods, and other tensioning systems.

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Unpitched percussion instrument

An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally played in this fashion.

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Wood splitting

Wood splitting (riving,"Riving" def. 1.b. Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009 cleaving) is an ancient technique used in carpentry to make lumber for making wooden objects, some basket weaving, and to make firewood.

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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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Wyvern

A wyvern (sometimes spelled wivern) is a legendary creature with a dragon's head and wings, a reptilian body, two legs, and a tail often ending in a diamond- or arrow-shaped tip.

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Yatai-bayashi

is a traditional taiko piece inspired by an annual festival in Chichibu, Japan.

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Yūkaku

Yūkaku (遊廓) meant the regions in Japan where brothels recognized by the government were situated.

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Zelkova serrata

Zelkova serrata (Japanese zelkova, Japanese elm or keyaki; 欅 (ケヤキ) keyaki /槻 (ツキ) tsuki;; 느티나무 neutinamu) is a species of the genus Zelkova native to Japan, Korea, eastern China and Taiwan.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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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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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiko

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