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  2. Brent (name) - Wikipedia

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    Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent ), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somerset and Devon ).

  3. List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Ayuchi is the original form of the name Aichi, and the Fujimae tidal flat, now a protected area, is all that remains of the earlier Ayuchi-gata. It became Aichi (愛知)→ love knowledge. Akita: 秋田県: Akita-ken (秋田県) means "autumn rice paddy". It was aita or akita, meaning wetland, good place for a rice crop. Aomori: 青森県

  4. Nakamura (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Naoto Nakamura (中村 直人, born 1979), Japanese singer-songwriter who performs under the name Naoto Inti Raymi; Shigenobu Nakamura (中村 滋延, born 1950), Japanese composer and music teacher; Tatsuya Nakamura (中村 達也, born 1965), Japanese musician; Teruo Nakamura (musician) (中村 照夫, born 1942), Japanese jazz bassist

  5. Ondo (music) - Wikipedia

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    The literal translation of "ondo" is "sound head." Kanji, or the Chinese characters used in the Japanese language, often have literal and abstract meanings, here the kanji for "sound" (音-on) having a more abstract meaning of "melody" or "music," and the kanji for "head," (頭) having a more abstract meaning of "beat," "base pattern."

  6. Japanese rock - Wikipedia

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    The success of Happy End's debut album and their second, Kazemachi Roman released in November 1971, proved the sustainability of Japanese-language rock music in Japan. [23] Carol (led by Eikichi Yazawa), RC Succession and Funny Company were especially famous and helped define the sound. Sometimes also beginning in the late sixties, but mostly ...

  7. Ainu folk music - Wikipedia

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    The pressure on Ainu music throughout their history as a people under the rule of a dominant majority has come largely from the Japanese government. The Japanese government deliberately banned Ainu language , music, and dance (including the bear ceremony) in 1799 in an attempt to homogenize the Ainu with the larger Japanese population.

  8. Furusato (children's song) - Wikipedia

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    Furusato (Japanese: 故郷, ' old home ' or ' hometown ') is a well-known 1914 Japanese children's song, with music by Teiichi Okano and lyrics by Tatsuyuki Takano [].. Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular place. [1]

  9. Kakegoe - Wikipedia

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    Kakegoe are used in traditional music ensembles, such as Hayashi, Nagauta, Taiko, and Tsugaru-jamisen.They are used to cue different parts of a musical piece. They can signal anywhere from the beginning or end of a particular rhythm, the beginning or end of an improvisation section for an instrument virtuoso, to cuing different instrument entrances.