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2 unusual facts about koto


Hear It Now

For an hour and a half of interviews in Koto the duo was able to use 21 seconds of the material on the air.

Io Shirai

Odate was previously in a relationship with fellow professional wrestler Kazushige Nosawa; the two lived together in Koto, Tokyo.


Basil Athanasiadis

Clouds that I Like (2011 Sargasso Records) for female voice, sho, 20-stringed koto and string trio

Chikubu Island

They include the Noh play Chikubushima and the Heike Biwa work Chikubushima Mōde, two koto melodies named Chikubushima, a jōruri (itchūbushi), a nagauta, and a tokiwazu-bushi of the same name.

Cold Dark Matter

300 Year old Tibetan Thigh Bone Trumpet; New Guinea Bamboo Bass Flute; African Tree Trunk Ceremonial Drum; Marcel Duchamp Ready-Made Bicycle Wheel; Burmese Temple Gong; Nepali Temple Bells; Tibetan Singing Bowl; John Cage Prepared Piano; African Gazelle Horn Pipe; Thai Military Bass Drum; Japanese Koto; one "found" and warped audio cassette of Christian Devotional Choir (actually original recordings made at Jonestown, Guyana prior to the mass suicides)

Elizabeth Falconer

She has earned numerous awards for her work combining Japanese folktales with original koto music and has produced over 10 albums on her label, Koto World.

Haru no Umi

"Haru no Umi" (春の海, "The Sea in Spring") is a Meiji shinkyoku piece for koto and shakuhachi composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi.

Hikaru Koto

Since retiring from the adult industry, Koto has become one of Japan's most popular YouTube personalities under the name "cotorich" and is known for her frequent use of "Ohayō. Konnichiwa. Konbanwa".

K. International School Tokyo

The school is split into two sections sharing one campus located next to two metro stops on the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line and Toei Oedo Line in Koto, Tokyo.

Katsutoshi Nagasawa

Nagasawa composed for traditional Japanese musical instruments (e.g., Shakuhachi, Koto, Shamisen).

L.A. Style

L.A. Style was a Dutch electronic dance music duo, consisting of founder and producer and radio DJ Wessel van Diepen (who later also created Nakatomi and the successful Vengaboys) and composer Denzil Slemming (a.k.a. Michiel Van Der Kuy of Laserdance and Koto fame).

Le marteau sans maître

The xylorimba recalls the African balafon; the vibraphone, the Balinese gamelan; and the guitar, the Japanese koto, though "neither the style nor the actual use of these instruments has any connection with these different musical civilizations" ("Speaking, Playing, Singing" (1963) in Boulez 1986, 341).

Masaoka

Miya Masaoka (born 1958), American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither

Modelhouse

The conservation of this private building was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2004 annual UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards.The head of the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu, Ms. Koto Kanno, presented the award to Mr. Rabindra Puri, owner of the Namuna Ghar.

Nosaka

Keiko Nosaka (born 1938), prominent Japanese koto player, specializing in contemporary music

Paoskoto

Paoskoto (often Paoscoto or Paos Koto) is a village and rural commune in Paoskoto Arrondissement in the Nioro du Rip Department of the Kaolack Region of Senegal, located near the border with the Gambia.

Pehr Henrik Nordgren

Amor Desesperada, 4 Pieces after Pablo Neruda's 20 Poemas de amor, y una canción desesperada for soprano, baritone, koto, shakuhachi and double bass, Op. 120 (2003)

Sarilamak

Sarilamak is a town or Sub-district in Limapuluh Koto Regency, of West Sumatra province of Indonesia and it is the seat (capital) of Limapuluh Koto Regency.

Showa Women's University

Japan Women's School of Higher Education (日本女子高等学院, Nihon Joshi Kōtō Gakuin), the predecessor of this university, was established by poet Enkichi Hitomi (pseudonym: Tōmei Hitomi), who gathered together his intelligentsia friends that sympathized with the minds of those fashionable idols at the time, notably Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Tadao Sawai

Sawai worked with a number of Western musicians, including Wadada Leo Smith and also released a CD of himself playing Jazzy Bach on the Koto.

Tsutaetai Koto/I Wanna See You

"Tsutaetai Koto" was used as the music variety show Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ's June/July ending theme song.

Yuanye

Contrasts have been drawn between this and other classic works of East Asian garden design, such as Sakuteiki (of the Japanese Heian period) which concentrates on water and rocks, and numerous Japanese works of the Edo period (Tzukiyama teizoden, Sagaryuniwa kohohiden no koto, Tsukiyama sunsuiden), to suggest a fundamental difference in approach between Chinese and Japanese garden design - namely, emphasis on architectural and natural features, respectively.


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