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  2. Fire and Rain (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Fire and Rain" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, released in August 1970 by Warner Bros. Records as the second single from Taylor's second studio album, Sweet Baby James. The song follows Taylor's reaction to the suicide of Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend, and his experiences with drug addiction ...

  3. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    Grade "S" means that it is taught in secondary school. The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed (勺, 銑, 脹, 錘, 匁).

  4. Sakura Sakura - Wikipedia

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    The "Sakura Sakura" melody has been popular since the Meiji period, and the lyrics in their present form were attached then. [citation needed] The tune uses a pentatonic scale known as the in scale (miyako-bushi pentatonic scale) and is played in quadruple meter and has three parts (ABBAC) which stretch over 14 bars (2 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 2).

  5. Music of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The word for "music" in Japanese is 音楽 (ongaku), combining the kanji 音 on (sound) with the kanji 楽 gaku (music, comfort). [1] Japan is the world's largest market for music on physical media [ citation needed ] and the second-largest overall music market , with a retail value of US$2.7 billion in 2017.

  6. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    This mark is used to show the start of a singer's part in a song 〓 222E: 1-2-14: 3013: geta kigō (ゲタ記号, "geta symbol") Used as a proofreader's mark indicating unavailability of a glyph, such as when a character cannot be displayed on a computer. The name comes from geta, a type of Japanese sandal. ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ 2276: 1-2-86, 1-2-91 ...

  7. Japanese sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    words that mimic sounds made by inanimate objects, like wind blowing or rain falling (zā-zā). Phenomime (擬態語, gitaigo) words that depict states, conditions, or manners of the external world (non-auditory senses), such as "damp" or "stealthily". Psychomime (擬情語, gijōgo) words that depict psychological states or bodily feelings.

  8. List of Japanese deities - Wikipedia

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    Her name means "Shines from Heaven" or "the great kami who shine Heaven". For many reasons, one among them being her ties to the Imperial family, she is often considered (though not officially) to be the "primary god" of Shinto. [1] [2] Ame-no-Uzume (天宇受売命 or 天鈿女命) Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry ...

  9. Traditional Japanese music - Wikipedia

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    Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...