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• Sakai Tadazumi
  *''Japanese'': [[酒井]] 忠恭 ''(Sakai Tadazumi)'' ...nstruments and costumes made. Following Tadazumi's death in [[1772]], Ming music continued to be passed down within the Sakai family, but was never again st
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• Sakai Tadahiro
  *''Japanese'': [[酒井]] 忠道 ''(Sakai Tadahiro)'' ...others in his court. In the first decades of the 1800s, Tadahiro had Ming music performed at gatherings at his [[daimyo yashiki|Edo mansion]], and elsewher
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• Miyazaki Inpo
  *''Japanese'': [[宮崎]] 筠圃 ''(Miyazaki Inpo)'' ...tscript to the [[1768]] ''[[Gishi gakufu]]'', a significant compilation of music in the style of the [[Ming Dynasty]].
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• Ikehara Kosei
  *''Japanese'': [[池原]] 厚清 ''(Ikehara Kousei)'' ...known for being one of the first Ryukyuans to learn [[Qing Dynasty|Qing]] music, and to perform it.
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• Zhu Zaiyu
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': [[朱]] 載堉 ''(Zhū Zàiyù / Shu Saiiku)'' ...n Imperial prince of the [[Ming Dynasty]], known today for his writings on music and dance. He is said to have been the first person in the world to devise
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• Guzheng
  ...a traditional Chinese musical instrument, a zither closely resembling the Japanese ''[[koto]]''. Unlike many other East Asian zithers, it employs metal string ...r zithers, and is higher in pitch. It is used both in court music and folk music, and is often associated with romantic subjects.
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• Gagaku
  *''Japanese'': 雅楽 ''(gagaku)'' ...characters. Chia-Ying Yeh, "The Revival and Restoration of Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Tr
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• Sho
  [[File:Sho-pem.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A 19th c. Japanese ''shô'' on display at the [[Peabody Essex Museum]]]] *''Japanese/Chinese'': 笙 ''(shou / shēng)''
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• Shosagoto
  *''Japanese'': 所作事 ''(shosagoto)'' ...kuromisu'', play as well during a ''shosagoto'' dance scene, adding to the music performed by those visible onstage.
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• Kokuba Koken
  *''Japanese'': [[国場]] 公憲 ''(Kokuba Kouken)'' Kokuba Kôken was an Okinawan musician skilled in the ''[[uzagaku]]'' music of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] royal court.
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• Michiyuki
  *''Japanese'': 道行 ''(michiyuki)'' ...ki: more than meets the eye." ''The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music''. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. p244.
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• Nomura-ryu
  *''Japanese'': 野村流 ''(Nomura-ryuu)'' ...e (''ryûha'') of classical Okinawan ''uta-sanshin'' (song and [[sanshin]]) music.
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• Okazaki Romon
  *''Japanese'': [[岡崎]] 盧門 ''(Okazaki Romon)'' ...uthored a number of significant works on poetry, history, and both ancient Japanese and Chinese writing.
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• Kakko
  *''Japanese'': 鞨鼓 ''(kakko)'' ...of the [[Nara period|Nara]] and [[Heian period]]s) and ''tôgaku'' (Chinese music), in which plays a key role in setting and maintaining the rhythm for the e
  870 bytes (138 words) - 21:50, 18 August 2013
• Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts
  *''Japanese'': 沖縄県立芸術大学 ''(Okinawa kenritsu geijutsu daigaku)'' ...y in the world for studying Okinawan traditional arts (including [[sanshin|music]], [[Ryukyuan dance|dance]], ''[[kumi udui]]'' theatre, [[Ryukyuan textiles
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• Nihon buyo
  *''Japanese'': 日本舞踊 ''(Nihon buyou)'' ...buyô'' (lit. "Japan[ese] dance") is the most prominent form of traditional Japanese dance in modern times. It is one of many so-called "traditional arts" forma
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• Nomura Ancho
  *''Japanese'': 野村安趙 ''(Nomura Anchou)'' ...ryu|Nomura-ryû]] school or style of classical Okinawan ''uta-[[sanshin]]'' music, the largest such school active today.
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• Ryuka
  *''Japanese'': 琉歌 ''(ryuuka)'' ...with an 8-8-8-6 mora structure (in contrast to the 5-7-5-7-7 structure of Japanese ''[[tanka]]'').
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• Aharen Honyu
  *''Japanese'': [[阿波連]] 本勇 ''(Aharen Hon'yuu)'' ...last bearer of the tradition of ''[[rujigaku]]'', the formal processional music of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] royal court.
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• Sakishima Islands
  *''Japanese'': 先島諸島 ''(Sakishima shotô)'' and Modernity in Yaeyaman Pop Music," ''Asian Music'' 39:1 (2008), 42.</ref> of the 1.45 million people in Okinawa prefecture,
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