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

  • 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.
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    pop japanese music information
Natalia Alas

A Look at the Koto - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 0 views

  • 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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      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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      this is what we use to play the Koto. You need three of them for your index finger, middle finger and thumb
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    This talks about the Koto, how we play it, the part, with what we play it, etc. It was fun reading it!!
Natalia Alas

Traditional Japanese Music - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 1 views

  • 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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      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
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    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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