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  2. Cathrinus - Wikipedia

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    Katherine, Catherine, Cathrina Cathrinus is a Latinized masculine version of the feminine name Katherine /Catherine. The name originated from the Greek feminine name Αἰκατερίνα or Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterina, Aikaterinē), which is of unknown etymology.

  3. List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents)

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    Documents of the history of Sugaura that are relevant for the study of the history of sō (惣), autonomous peasant communities in medieval Japan. The shōen map contains the boundaries of Sugaura and Ōura-shimo manors whose boundaries were contested at the time, but more prominently Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa with a temple - shrine complex ...

  4. Japanese musical scales - Wikipedia

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    A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...

  5. Japanese mode - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music.The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to ...

  6. List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books)

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    [103] [104] [105] It is a collection of Buddhist tales and a guide to important Buddhist ceremonies and figures in Japanese Buddhist history. [106] [107] The designated manuscript from 1273 is known as the Tōji Kanchiin [nb 12] manuscript and is the second oldest of the Sanbō Ekotoba. It is virtually complete unlike the late Heian period ...

  7. List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Classical ...

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    [8] [77] [79] [81] Japanese visitors to Song China returned with a large number of printed books, on a variety of subjects such as history, philosophy, Buddhism, Confucianism, literature, medicine and geography, causing a revival of pure scholarship, which had been sidelined during the earlier obsession with poetry in the Heian period courtier ...

  8. Ritsu and ryo scales - Wikipedia

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    The ritsu scale is the voice of the male phoenix, yang, being, the voice that ascends from above and is inhaled breath, emerging from the ki while the ryo scale is the voice of the female phoenix, yin, nothingness, the voice that ascends from below and is exhaled breath, emerging from the breath; probably indicating that ritsu is vertical and ryo is horizontal.

  9. Category:Japanese male classical composers - Wikipedia

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    Also: Japan: People: By occupation: Classical composers / Male composers: Male classical composers This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Japanese classical composers . It includes classical composers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.