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The Yagibushi (Japanese: 八木節, meaning song of yagi [1]) is a popular folk song and dance performed at matsuri (and occasionally Undokai sports days) in Gunma and Tochigi, Japan. It consists of dancers with broad hats called kasa going in a counter clockwise circle around a mikoshi. The dance is very energetic and ends with everyone ...
Yagi (written: 八木) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alissa Yagi (八木 アリサ, born 1995), Japanese model and actress; Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次, 1886–1976), electrical engineer and professor; developer of the Yagi-Uda antenna
The name Yagi has been used to name five tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was submitted by Japan , which is the Japanese word for goat and the Japanese name of the constellation Capricornus .
The Yamato-Yagi Station is a large Kintetsu train station serving Yagi, with express lines to downtown Osaka (40 minutes), Kyoto (1 hour) and Nara city (20 minutes). A large percentage of Yagi's population work in these neighboring cities. Yagi has a considerable foreign population made up of English language teachers and Peruvian factory workers.
Yagi was a founding member of the quartet Koto Vortex with fellow Sawai apprentices Yoko Nishi, Miki Maruta and Etsuko Takezawa, [1] as well as Kokoo, a trio which performs originals and progressive rock covers exclusively on traditional Japanese instruments. She was also one-third of the avant-pop girl group Hoahio which recorded two CD's for ...
Yagi-nishiguchi Station, in Kashihara, Nara, Japan Kami-Yagi Station , a JR-West Kabe Line station located in 3-chōme, Yagi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan Rikutyū-Yagi Station , a railway station on the East Japan Railway Company Hachinohe Line located in Hirono, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Yagi is easily accessible via the JR Sagano Train Line from Kyoto. Yagi has a long history dating back at least as far as the Nara Period, when Yagi's extant Sanin Road was a main route through the prefecture, linking Kyoto to Kameoka and Sonobe. In 1960 Yagi and the surrounding area was hit by a massive typhoon. The banks of the Ōi River ...
Winther-Tamaki, Bert. "Yagi Kazuo: The Admission of the Nonfunctional Object into the Japanese Pottery World". Journal of Design History Vol. 12 No. 2 (1999): 123-141. Cort, Louise Allison. "Japanese Encounters with Clay." In Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth, 103-191. Edited by Louise Allison Cort and ...