* Tenko: Oguchi Daihachi No Nihon Taikoron Oguchi Daihachi ’ s Theory of Japanese Drums.

Kwouk also appeared as the honourable but misguided Major Yamauchi in the 1980s World War II television drama Tenko.

* The hotel featured in episodes of the BBC / ABC co-production Tenko.

Tenko is a television drama, co-produced by the BBC and the ABC.

A total of thirty episodes were produced between 1981 and 1984, followed by a one-off special ( which was twice the length of the other episodes ), Tenko Reunion, in 1985.

Tenko dramatises the experiences of European women interned by the Japanese militia following the invasion of Singapore in 1942.

Tenko was created by Lavinia Warner after she had conducted research into the internment of nursing corps officer Margot Turner ( 1910 – 1993 ) for an edition of This Is Your Life and was convinced of the dramatic potential of the stories of women prisoners of the Japanese.

In 1985, a two-hour special, Tenko Reunion, was produced.

Tenko Reunion featured Marion Jefferson ( Ann Bell ) now divorced from Clifford ; Dr Beatrice Mason ( Stephanie Cole ) and Christina Campbell ( Emily Bolton ) now working in a community centre in Singapore, Sister Ulrica ( Patricia Lawrence ) doing missionary work in Asia, Domenica Forster-Brown ( Elizabeth Chambers ), the now happily re-married Mrs Van Meyer, nurse and now doctor-in-training Kate Norris ( Clare Oberman ), Alice Courtenay ( Cindy Shelley ) and working class girls Dorothy Bennett ( Veronica Roberts ) and Maggie Carter ( Elizabeth Mickery ), now a successful businesswoman and married mother of two, respectively.

The major twist of the Tenko Reunion was the revelation that it was one of the women who had betrayed them to the communist rebels, the spy being revealed as Christina Campbell, whose difficulty adjusting after life in the camps had been developed in detail in the third series.

The complete series of Tenko was re-released on DVD during 2011 through Acorn Media UK.

One of her most recognised and popular roles was of Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s television series Tenko, a drama which chronicled the lives of British women in Singapore after the Japanese invasion and their consequent confinement in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

Assigned to produce Star Cops was Evgeny Gridneff, who had previously worked for the BBC on Tenko, Blott on the Landscape and Hold the Back Page.

Princess Tenko is the stage name of ( born June 29, 1959 in Arai, Niigata ), a pop singer turned magician specialising in grand illusions.

The older Tenko passed his mantle to her before he died at the age of 45 by heart disease.

Though he had several apprentices, his sponsors chose Mariko as the 2nd Tenko.

Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic, the cartoon series based on her by Saban, is centered around Princess Tenko leading a team of warriors ( Bolt, Hawk, Steel and apprentice Ali ) called the Guardians who tried to amass the scattered and stolen magical Starfire Gems, each of which had a special power.

At the end of each episode, the real Princess Tenko would appear on stage and perform an illusion or teach a magic trick.

She loves all animals, taking an immediate liking to Tenko ( whom she calls " Tenki "), but her weakness for cute things makes her vulnerable.

In this new form, he puts Ueki in his awakening organ ( It turns out that he also absorbed Celestial Beasts similar to Tenko ), and advances Ueki to his 9 and 10 star treasures.

It is first seen when Ueki was defending himself from Tenko.

The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 1987 and 1989 and created by Lavinia Warner and Jill Hyem, who had previously produced and written the BBC women prisoner of war series Tenko.

Wish Me Luck is similar to Tenko and the 1970s BBC drama Secret Army, in that it deals with strong female characters coping under extreme conditions in wartime.

It was from the foundation of the first Taiko ensemble that Daihachi Oguchi continued on to lead the successful Taiko group named Osuwa Daiko.

* History of Osuwa Daiko.

Nagano: Osuwa Gakuen, 1994.

The Osuwa festival is held every August in Yoshii.

Taiko, in general, are 3 sticks percussion instruments.

Taiko are also characterized by a high amount of tension on the drums heads, with a correspondingly high pitch relative to body size.

Taiko are categorized into two types of construction.

The " okedō " has its own upright stand which was invented by Asano Taiko Drum Company.

* Nara-Scrub Oak, used by Kawada Taiko to make their " Hi-Tech Taikos " which are constructed from staves, also used for Bachi.

* Tamo-Unknown, used by Kawada Taiko to make their " Hi-Tech Taikos " which are constructed from staves.

( video ) A group of Taiko drummers in Roppongi, Japan.

He is credited with forming the first actual Taiko ensemble referred to as kumi-daiko and starting the modern popularity of Taiko performances.

Coming from a jazz background, Daihachi Oguchi speculated why the Taiko drums had never previously been played as an ensemble before.

From this simple idea Daihachi Oguchi put together various Taiko of all different shapes, sizes, and pitches to be included in his ensemble.

Since an actual Taiko ensemble had never really performed together and the people he had playing with him were in no way professional musicians, he based the rhythms of their performance on the simplistic arrangement of the shrine music that had been previously played ; which allowed for nearly any person with the interest in Taiko could play along.

Oguchi is widely attributed as the GrandMaster of modern Taiko.

Around the same time as Daihachi Oguchi ’ s Taiko ensemble's name was spreading around Japan via radio and television broadcasts, another pioneer in the field called, Sukeroku Daiko, emerged.

Despite the group ’ s eventual break up, one of its members, Seido Kobayashi, went on to form the group Oedo Sukeroku Daiko, which is credited for being the very first professional Taiko group.

Another Taiko ensemble that set the framework for one of the most popular groups began on Sado Island.

The remaining members, with the help of drums from Asano Taiko, went on to form the Taiko group Kodo.

Taiko has grown in the United States since coming over from Japan in the late 1960s.

The first American taiko group, San Francisco Taiko Dojo, was formed in 1968 by Seiichi Tanaka, a postwar immigrant who studied taiko in Japan and brought the styles and teachings to America.

In 1973, the third American taiko group, San Jose Taiko, was formed in the San Jose area.

Japanese Canadian taiko began in the 1970s with Katari Taiko and was inspired by the San Jose Taiko group.