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Atsuya Okuda
Atsuya Okuda (奥田 敦也 ''Okuda Atsuya'') is a Japanese-born master player and teacher jinashi shakuhachi, an unrefined bamboo flute. Prior to dedicating his efforts to the bamboo flute, he was a professional jazz trumpet player from approximately 1965 until 1985. Biography Since the death of Watazumi Doso in 1992, some regard Atsuya Okuda as the greatest living jinashi shakuhachi player. His style is very quiet and subtle and his patience has been described as "geological in dimension".Clive Bell. Review of "The Sound of Zen". Wire Magazine. Okuda has taught shakuhachi since 1985 but until releasing ''The Sound of Zen'' in 2002, he refused to record his playing. He believed that only live sound leads to an understanding of jinashi shakuhachi. As of 2005, Atsuya Okuda lives and teaches in Kokubunji, a suburb of Tokyo. Album * ''The Sound of Zen ''The Sound of Zen'' is a 2002 solo shakuhachi album by Atsuya Okuda. The album contains recordings of six honkyoku, the ...
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ...
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Bamboo Zen
Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, but it probably comes from the Dutch or Portuguese language, which originally borrowed it from Malay or Kannada. In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross-section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent. The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, including the palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering. Bamboos include some of the fastest-growing plants in the world, due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. Certain species of bamboo can grow within a 24-hour period, at a rate of almost an hour (equivalent to 1 mm every 90 seco ...
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Japanese Musicians
This list tries to include all artists/bands from ''all'' genres originating from Japan. This list does not include artists/bands who perform in Japanese but are of different origin. 0-9 and symbols *°C-ute *12012 *175R * 44 Magnum * 88Kasyo Junrei *9mm Parabellum Bullet *9Goats Black Out A *AAA *Abingdon Boys School * A.B.'s *Aburadako * Access *Acid * Acid Android *Acid Black Cherry * Acid Mothers Temple * Acidman * ACO * Ado *Afilia Saga * Ai Otsuka * Aice5 * aiko * Aimer *Aimyon * Aion * Aira Mitsuki * Ajico * Akanishi Jin *AKB48 *Akeboshi *Aki Misato * Akiko Suwanai * Akiko Yano * Akino Arai *Akira Ifukube * Akira Kushida * Akishibu Project * Aldious * Alexandros * Alice Nine *Aliene Ma'riage * Ali Project *Alma Kaminiito * Ami Onuki * Ami Suzuki *Amoyamo * AMWE * An Cafe *Angela *Angela Aki *Angelo *Animetal * Annabel *Anna S * Anri *Anthem *Anti Feminism *Aphasia *Aqua Timez *Arashi *Asa-Chang & Junray * Asian Kung-Fu Generation *Astro * Atsushi Sakurai * Aural V ...
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Japanese Male Musicians
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants i ... * Japanese studies {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Tales Of Bamboo
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Southern Island" - Tales Of Palawan Island
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Plays Jinashi Nobe Shakuhachi
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Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Economy of Japan, Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was mov ...
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Hotchiku
The , sometimes romanized as or , is a Japanese aerophone, an end-blown bamboo flute, crafted from root sections of bamboo. The bamboo root is cleaned and sanded, resulting in a surface patterned with many small, circular knots where the roots formerly joined the stalk. The same part of the bamboo plant is also used to produce the but, unlike the , the 's inside (bore) and outside surfaces are left unlacquered, and an inlay is not used in the mouthpiece. The membranes at the nodes inside a bore are generally left more intact than those of a , though older also share this trait. Together, these characteristics make for a visibly and audibly raw and organic instrument. are sometimes referred to as , meaning "without paste made of clay and lacquer, used to smooth the bore on modern one-piece"; are not cut in two pieces for crafting or storage, unlike modern that are used as musical instruments. have four holes down the front for fingers and one hole on the back for the ...
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Kokubunji, Tokyo
250px, Ruins of Musashi Kokubun-ji temple is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 126,791, and a population density of 11,000 persons per km². The total area of the city was . Geography Kokubunji is located on the Musashino Terrace of western Tokyo, approximately in the geographic centre of mainland Tokyo Metropolis. The city extends for about 5.68 kilometers east-to-west by about 3.86 kilometers north-to-south. Surrounding municipalities Tokyo Metropolis * Fuchū *Kunitachi *Tachikawa *Kodaira *Koganei Climate Kokubunji has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kokubunji is 14.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm, with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August (at around 25.5 °C) and lowest in January (at around 2.6 °C). ...
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