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Japan's Latest Pop-Music Craze? Kids - Patrick St. Michel - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Mana Ashida is the most famous child in Japan
  • The seven-year-old has starred in a dozen movies over the past three years,
  • Alongside Marumo co-star and fellow seven-year-old Fuku Suzuki, she recorded the hit "Maru Maru Mori Mori!,"
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  • But Ashida's biggest claim to ubiquity is music
  • Ashida and Suzuki the youngest artists to ever appear in the Japanese music charts' top 10.
  • Ashida, who released her latest song on May 16, stands as an extreme example of the Japanese music industry's recent embrace of young performers.
  • Natalia Alas on 19 Feb 14
     
    pop japanese music information
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A Look at the Koto - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 0 views

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shared by Natalia Alas on 12 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • A Look at the Koto
  • names are written with Chinese characters meaning "dragon's tongue," "dragon's brow," and "dragon's horn."
  • The names for the parts of a koto were decided long ago by likening the instrument to a dragon stretched out along the ground.
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  • The names for the parts of a koto were decided long ago by likening the instrument to a dragon stretched out along the ground.
  • After the koto is strung, and the strings are run through holes in the instrument's body and tied off, the leftover string is placed here.
  • This section is the main body of the koto.
  • This section is the main body of the koto.
  • are written with Chinese characters meaning "dragon's tongue," "dragon's brow," and "dragon's horn."
  • tsume
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      Natalia Alas on 19 Feb 14
       
      the name of the object with what you play the Koto with
  • These supports are slid up and down the instrument to adjust the sound of each string.
  • These supports are slid up and down the instrument to adjust the sound of each string.
  • they also help transmit the sound from the strings to the body of the koto, making it fuller and richer.
  • The koto is not played directly with the fingers.
  • The koto is not played directly with the fingers.
  • After the koto is strung, and the strings are run through holes in the instrument's body and tied off, the leftover string is placed here.
  • tsume
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      Natalia Alas on 19 Feb 14
       
      this is what we use to play the Koto. You need three of them for your index finger, middle finger and thumb
  • Natalia Alas on 12 Feb 14
     
    This talks about the Koto, how we play it, the part, with what we play it, etc. It was fun reading it!!
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Traditional Japanese Music - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 1 views

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  • musical forms were imported from China more than a thousand years ago, but over the years, they were reshaped into distinctively
  • The shamisen resembles a guitar; it has a long, thin neck and a small, rectangular body covered with skin.
  • It was the 13-string koto that was carried to Japan during the Nara period (710-794).
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      Natalia Alas on 12 Feb 14
       
      The koto had less strings before, but it then happen to had
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  • koto, meanwhile, is a large, wooden instrument with 13 strings. It's around 160 centimeters
  • The left hand presses down on the strings to bend notes and create other effects.
  • Historians think the koto was born around the fifth to third century B.C. in China.
  • history of traditional music in Japan is rich and varied.
  • it came to be performed by itself.
  • commonly performed with the shamisen and shakuhachi or as accompaniment to songs.
  • Of the traditional instruments, the koto is probably the most familiar and popular.
  • Sadly, modern Japanese rarely hear these traditional instruments being played live these days.
  • Many musical forms were imported from China more than a thousand years ago
  • Natalia Alas on 12 Feb 14
     
    This is the information of the traditional japanese instruments and how are they played. The most important ones were Shamisen, Shakuhachi, and Koto. Koto is the most familiar and popular. I found this website very interesting!
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