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Her solo koto CD Shizuku was produced by Zorn and released on the Tzadik label in 1999. In 2001 she recorded "Yural" with her koto ensemble Paulownia Crush for the East Works label. Under the auspices of the Japan Foundation, Yagi toured Russia with this ensemble in the fall of 2004.
Koto concert at Himejijo kangetsukai in 2009 Michiyo Yagi playing a 21-string koto. The influence of Western pop music has made the koto less prominent in Japan, although it is still developing as an instrument. The 17-string bass koto (jūshichi-gen) has become more prominent over the years since its development by Michio Miyagi. There are ...
It was originally a sōkyoku (Japanese: 箏曲, lit. 'koto music'), a kind of chamber music with the koto playing the leading part, but nowadays the part of the koto is more widely known than the original. The music is made from six columns, hence the name, and there are exactly fifty-two beats in each column, except for the first row, which ...
The list of radio stations in Japan lists all the national/regional radio stations in Japan. Because of governmental regulation, Japan has a relatively small number of radio stations. Japan also has a comparatively smaller number of radio listeners nationwide than most other developed countries as well as countries in the geographic region .
NHK-FM (NHK-FM, Enueichikei-Efuemu) is a Japanese radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK.Its programming output, which consists of classical music, jazz, rock, Japanese pop music, folk, seven times of news bulletins and talk is broadly similar to the BBC's Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 3 in the United Kingdom and KBS Happy FM, KBS Classic FM and KBS Cool FM in South Korea.
A woman playing a koto, depicted in 1878 by Settei Hasegawa.. Danmono (Japanese: 段物) is a traditional Japanese style of instrumental music for the koto.The few pieces of its repertoire were mostly composed and developed in the seventeenth century, and all follow a strict form of composition.
In his speech, the director Gotō Shinpei listed the objectives that radio should pursue within the context of Japanese society: to create equal cultural opportunities (universally sharing the benefits of radio and likewise eliminating the boundaries between city and countryside, age groups, genders and social classes), to bring a new splendour to domestic life (families could spend time at ...
J-Wave airs mostly music, including J-pop, C-pop and Western music, covering a wide range of formats. The station is considered the most popular among FM broadcasts in Tokyo, [ 1 ] and has surprised the radio broadcast industry by gaining a higher popularity rate than an AM station ( JOQR ) in a survey conducted in June 2008. [ 2 ]