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Chūshingura (忠臣蔵, The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) is the title given to fictionalized accounts in Japanese literature, theater, and film that relate to the historical incident involving the forty-seven rōnin and their mission to avenge the death of their master, Asano Naganori.
Made from red sandalwood and ranging from 1.1 to 1.4 metres (3 ft 7 in to 4 ft 7 in) long, the shamisen has ivory pegs, strings made from twisted silk, and a belly covered in cat or dog skin or a synthetic skin. [a] The strings, which are of different thickness, are plucked or struck with a tortoise shell, ivory or synthetic ivory pick.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
Glass bowls of decreasing sizes are set on a horizontal axis that may be rotated with a treadle operated by the player's foot. The bowls rest in a trough filled with water that keeps their surface wet. The player gently rubs their fingers against the wet bowls to produce a sound. The pitch of the sound depends upon the size of the bowl being ...
On Dec 21, 2010, Fire-King Japan or Fire-King Japan Co., Ltd. was founded in Japan to revive Fire-King milk glass. [2] Officially opening to the public in 2011 in Tokyo, Japan, the company sells a variety of mugs and other dishes in various colors such as milk glass, jade-ite, and rose-ite. [3] Their current CEO is Naoyuki Koike.
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from ἁρμονία, harmonia, the Greek word for harmony), [1] [2] is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means ...
Japanese enamel work became sought after in the west and sourced many pieces from Toshima, which is the origin of Owari cloisonne. As of 1918, at least fifty cloisonné artists worked there. [2] The company was given an Imperial Warrant of Appointment to the Japanese court. Ando cloisonné was also presented as state gifts.
Chushingura was distributed by Toho in Japan on November 3, 1962. [1] The film was Toho's fourth highest-grossing film of 1962 and was the 10th highest-grossing film in Japan that year. [4] The film was released by Toho International with English subtitles and an English narration by Michael Higgins with a 108-minute running time on October 10 ...