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Yang Jisheng (楊繼盛; 1516 – 1555) was a Chinese court official of the Ming dynasty who held multiple posts during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. He was executed because of his stand against political opponent Yan Song. The evening before his execution, Yang Jisheng wrote a poem which was preserved on monuments and in later accounts of ...
Kokoro (こゝろ, or in modern kana usage こころ) is a 1914 Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki, and the final part of a trilogy starting with To the Spring Equinox and Beyond and followed by The Wayfarer (both 1912). [1]
Mayumi Itsuwa (五輪 真弓, Itsuwa Mayumi) (born January 24, 1951) is a Japanese vocalist, composer, lyricist, and keyboardist who made her debut in 1972.. Her first studio album entitled Shoujo was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Grammy Award winner John Fischbach, with distinguished musicians such as David Campbell, Carole King and Charles Larkey who was King's husband at that time.
The varying translations came from the different possible readings of the song title. "Tianya" (Chinese: 天涯) literally means "sky horizon" that carries the meaning of "at the end of the world", but within the context of the song it also has the figurative meanings of "someone separated by a long distance" from the phrase "tianya haijiao ...
Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石, 9 February 1867 – 9 December 1916), pen name Sōseki, born Natsume Kin'nosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist.He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat, Kusamakura and his unfinished work Light and Darkness.
Gondola no Uta (ゴンドラの唄, "The Gondola Song") is a 1915 romantic ballad [1] that was popular in Taishō period Japan.Lyrics were written by Isamu Yoshii, melody by Shinpei Nakayama.
There are also hundreds of min'yō contests, both national and local, again often for only one song. [9] For many Japanese, min'yō evokes, or is said to evoke, a nostalgia for real or imagined home towns and family; hence the saying common among practitioners and fans of the genre: "Folk song is the heart's home town" / "Min'yō wa kokoro no ...
The song finished 2020 as the year's top Japan Hot 100 song, becoming the first single not released on CD to do so. [13] The song was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), exceeding 500 million on-demand streams in Japan, on October 25, 2021, making it the first ever song to do so in RIAJ history. [ 14 ]