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Kotonoha Akane Aoi
Kotonoha is Japanese for word, language, or waka. It may also refer to: * Kotonoha Katsura, a female main character in the fiction ''School Days'' (visual novel) * Kotonoha, a scanlation group * Kotonoha (website), a discussion forum website * Kotonoha (Chitose Hajime album), a 2001 mini album by Chitose Hajime is a Japanese singer from Amami Ōshima. She sings in the shima-uta style particular to that region, with distinctive falsetto effects. History Early life Chitose Hajime began learning shamisen under her mother's encouragement from a young a ... * Kotonoha (Kokia album), a 2010 extended play album by Kokia *Kotonoha, a fictional world that appears in works by Ryo Sasaki {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waka (poetry)
is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although ''waka'' in modern Japanese is written as , in the past it was also written as (see Wa (Japan), Wa, an old name for Japan), and a variant name is . Etymology The word ''waka'' has two different but related meanings: the original meaning was "poetry in Japanese" and encompassed several genres such as ''chōka'' and ''sedōka'' (discussed below); the later, more common definition refers to poetry in a tanka, 5-7-5-7-7 metre. Up to and during the compilation of the in the eighth century, the word ''waka'' was a general term for poetry composed in Japanese, and included several genres such as , , and . However, by the time of the ''Kokinshūs compilation at the beginning of the tenth century, all of these forms except for the ''tanka'' and ''chōka'' had effectively gone extinct, and ''chōka'' had significantly diminished in prominence. As a result, the word ''waka'' became effectively synonymous with ''tanka'', and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Days (visual Novel)
''School Days'' is a Japanese slice-of-life eroge visual novel game developed by 0verflow, released in April 2005, for Windows. It was later remade as a DVD game and ported to PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PlayStation Portable (PSP). The story follows Makoto Ito, a high school student who becomes the love interest of several girls during his second term. ''School Days'' has multiple endings depending on the player's choices. Some of these endings later became notorious for their graphic violence. 0verflow announced work on ''School Days'' in October 2004 and marketed it by showing off the game's innovative use of animated cutscenes and voice-acting. Following its success, 0verflow produced multiple sequels, including a spin-off of the original story called ''Summer Days'', a parallel story called '' Cross Days''. Klon developed the spin-off '' Island Days'' for the Nintendo 3DS. A ''School Days'' remaster, ''School Days HQ'', was released in October 2010, and localized in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
