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Hachijō-daiko is a unique style of Japanese drumming originating on Japan's Hachijo Island ( Hachijō-jima ), located in the Pacific some 287 kilometers south of Tokyo.
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Hachijō-daiko and is
Hachijō-daiko is an improvisational style of drumming in which the drum is positioned vertically to allow two players to hit either side at the same time.
Among the various Hachijō-daiko rhythms, perhaps the most unusual is the intoxicating honbataki rhythm which is most often sung to by one of the two drummers.
One of the most notable and oldest living adherents of Hachijō-daiko is the nonagenarian Kumao Okuyama.
Today Hachijō-daiko is no longer confined to Hachijō-jima but can be heard all over Japan as well as the U. S. and elsewhere due to a growing musical diaspora that stretches around the globe.
Hachijō-daiko and Japanese
Popular performers of Hachijō-daiko include the group, Rokuninkai, who regularly appear in concerts and festivals throughout the Japanese archipelago.
is and unique
What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.
One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.
But Oakwood Heights is unique in one particular.
The structure appears to be unique among OOH compounds, but is the same as that assumed by Af.
A number of unique medical problems might be created when man is exposed to an infectious agent through the respiratory route rather than by natural portal of entry.
These operators D and N are unique and each is a polynomial in T.
It is interesting that a 1: 1 correspondence can be established between the lines of two such pencils, so that in a sense a unique image can actually be assigned to each tangent.
Hence, thought of as a line in a particular plane **yp, any tangent to Q has a unique image and moreover this image is the same for all planes through L.
Spontaneity training theory is unique and relatively new.
This weakness is not unique to labor surplus areas, for it is inherent in the system of local school districts in this country.
What with traders trading for so many different objectives, and what with there being so many unique and individualized market theories and trading techniques in use, and more coming into use all the time, it is hard to imagine how any particular theory or technique could acquire enough `` fans '' to invalidate itself.
Probably the primary reason for special treatment of a net operating loss carryover is the unique opportunity it presents for tax avoidance.
It is the classroom teacher, however, who has daily contacts with pupils, and who is in a unique position to put sound psychological principles into practice.
One reason for the unique vitality of the chorus is its great variety in expression.
The policy may not be unique but the maximum value of P certainly is, and once the policy is specified this maximum can be calculated by ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) as a function of the feed state Af.
Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.
Most people do not realize that the congregation, as a gathered fellowship meeting regularly face to face, personally sharing in a common experience and expressing that experience in daily relationships with one another, is unique.
A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.
First, the State Department is unique among government agencies for its lack of public supporters.
The death of a man is unique, and yet it is universal.
is and style
It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.
The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.
George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.
It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.
At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather.
No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.
Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.
There is only one Hardy style, but in the earlier poems that style is only intermittently evident, and when it is not, the style is the style of another poet, or of the fashion of the time.
is and Japanese
Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.
In is she Chinese or Japanese??
The Japanese sake is wine fermented from rice grain.
Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.
I was told that it is quite likely that Japanese soldiers would not fight again -- for why should they??
Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.
Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.
Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.
But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.
Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.
She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.
Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.
In Japanese, the abacus is called soroban (, lit.
The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.
The use of the soroban is still taught in Japanese primary schools as part of mathematics, primarily as an aid to faster mental calculation.
This organization is used in Southeast Asia, Tibet, Korean hangul, and even Japanese kana, which is not an alphabet.
Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.
The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.
However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.
Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).
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