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Shigin (Japanese: 詩吟, IPA:) is a performance of reciting a Japanese poem or a Chinese poem read in Japanese, each poem (詩 shi) usually chanted (吟 gin) by an individual or in a group. Reciting can be done loudly before a large audience, softly to a few friends, or quietly to the reciter themselves.
Poems from the Wakan rōeishū, by Fujiwara no Kintō. The Wakan Rōeishū (和漢朗詠集, Collection of Japanese and Chinese Poems for Singing) is an anthology of Chinese poems (Jp. kanshi 漢詩) and 31-syllable Japanese waka (Jp. tanka 短歌) for singing to fixed melodies (the melodies are now extinct). [1]
"Umi Yukaba" (海行かば) is a Japanese song whose lyrics are based on a chōka poem by Ōtomo no Yakamochi in the Man'yōshū (poem 4094), an eighth century anthology of Japanese poetry, set to music by Kiyoshi Nobutoki.
While it was originally songs to be sung, the samurai class in Shuri and Naha treated them as poems to be read aloud, under the heavy influence from mainland Japanese high culture. For its origin as songs, early ryūka anthologies were classified by melodies rather than by themes as are done for waka.
A kakekotoba (掛詞) or pivot word is a rhetorical device used in the Japanese poetic form waka.This trope uses the phonetic reading of a grouping of kanji (Chinese characters) to suggest several interpretations: first on the literal level (e.g. 松, matsu, meaning "pine tree"), then on subsidiary homophonic levels (e.g. 待つ, matsu, meaning "to wait").
Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...
It contains 42 poems. [2] After back pain forced Shibata to give up her hobby of classical Japanese dance, she turned to writing poetry at the age of 92, at the suggestion of her son Kenichi. [ 3 ] As of 2011 she was writing poems for a second anthology, [ 3 ] lived alone in the Tokyo suburbs, and was a widow.
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