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  2. Suikinkutsu - Wikipedia

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    ' water koto cavern ') is a type of Japanese garden ornament and music device. It consists of an upside down buried pot with a hole at the top. Water drips through the hole at the top onto a small pool of water inside of the pot, creating a pleasant splashing sound that rings inside of the pot similar to a bell or Japanese zither.

  3. Japanese dry garden - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese dry garden (枯山水, karesansui) or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in ...

  4. Traditional Japanese musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Kagurabue (神楽笛) – transverse bamboo flute used for mi-kagura (御神楽), Shinto ritual music) Komabue (高麗笛) – transverse bamboo flute used for komagaku; similar to the ryūteki; Shakuhachi – vertical bamboo flute used for Zen meditation; Shinobue – transverse folk bamboo flute; Tsuchibue (土笛 (つちぶえ), lit.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Tōru Takemitsu - Wikipedia

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    Experiments and works that incorporated traditional Japanese musical ideas and language continued to appear in his output, and an increased interest in the traditional Japanese garden began to reflect itself in works such as In an Autumn Garden for gagaku orchestra (1973), and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden for orchestra (1977).

  7. Japanese garden - Wikipedia

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    Japanese gardens are designed to be seen from the outside, as in the Japanese rock garden or zen garden; or from a path winding through the garden. Use of rocks: in a Chinese garden, particularly in the Ming dynasty , scholar's rocks were selected for their extraordinary shapes or resemblance to animals or mountains, and used for dramatic effect.

  8. Yuko-En on the Elkhorn - Wikipedia

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    The Yuko-En on the Elkhorn garden features the traditional elements of a Japanese garden with plants and landforms native to Japan and Kentucky. The site's flat land was converted with 1400 truckloads of earth into gentle rising hills with gravel paths and arched bridges leading through a water garden , a Zen rock garden , and past the banks of ...

  9. List of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu - Wikipedia

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    100 Years of Japanese Cinema: directed by Nagisa Oshima; documentary film Radio scores: 1955: 音の四季: Oto no shiki: Symphonic Poem for Concrete Sound Objects and Music: composition for radio Radio scores: 1955: 海の幻想: Umi no gensō: composition for radio Radio scores: 1955: 炎: Honoo: radio drama Radio scores: 1956: Kの死: K no ...