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Pages in category "Japanese folk singers" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Akeboshi;
Japanese folk singers (29 P) Pages in category "Japanese folk musicians" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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 ...
Okinawan folk music differs from mainland Japanese folk music in several ways. Okinawan folk music is often accompanied by the sanshin , whereas in mainland Japan the shamisen accompanies instead. Other Okinawan instruments include the sanba (which produce a clicking sound similar to that of castanets ), taiko and a sharp finger whistle called ...
In the 1970s, the Ministry of Culture of Japan planned a survey of Japanese folk music that results in the collection called "Emergency Folk Song Survey" (Min'yō kinkyū chōsa). [15] The project was funded by prefectural and national levels of government. In 1994, the collection had been recorded more than 50 000 songs and variants. [15]
Hako Yamasaki (山崎ハコ, Yamasaki Hako, born May 18, 1957), [1] (birth name Hatsuko Yamasaki (山崎 初子)) is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter, actor, and writer. She recorded her first album in 1975. [ 2 ]
Uehara was different from Nakasone in that he engaged in transforming folk songs into popular music. [7] In 1992, The Boom, a rock band from Yamanashi Prefecture, released an Okinawa-inspired song titled "Shima Uta" (島唄). It became a smash hit in Japanese market and the name shima-uta came to be associated with Okinawa pop in mainland Japan.
Yoshio Akeboshi (明星嘉男, Akeboshi Yoshio), more commonly known as Akeboshi (アケボシ), is a Japanese folk singer. He is mainly known for the song Wind, used as an ending theme for the first season of the anime Naruto. His surname means "bright star," while his given name means "fine man." Akeboshi was born on July 1, 1978, in Yokohama