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		<title>Yo Hitoto</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2008-08-01/yo-hitoto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an artist with a sad past.
Yo Hitoto (一青窈 Hitoto Yō, born September 20, 1976) is a Japanese pop singer. Her mother is Japanese and her father is Taiwanese. She can speak three languages: Japanese, English, and standard Mandarin Chinese. Tae Hitoto is her older sister. Her name Hitoto is not her real surname, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rina Aiuchi</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2008-07-11/rina-aiuchi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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Rina Aiuchi (愛内 里菜, Aiuchi Rina, born July 31, 1980 in Sakai, Osaka, Japan) is a female Japanese popular music singer. She writes her own lyrics to her songs and now self-produces. She is currently affiliated with the Giza Studio recording label.
As a child, Rina enjoyed singing for others, and put on shows for her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karaoke</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2006-01-09/karaoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That oh-so-Japanese institution is a lot more fun when you're actually in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Koto</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2004-12-30/koto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Koto is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither.
Koto are about 180cm long and have 13 strings that are strung tautly across 13 movable bridges along the length of the instrument. Players make base pitches by moving these bridges before playing, and three finger picks (on thumb, forefinger, and middle finger) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shakuhachi</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2004-12-28/shakuhachi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shakuhachi (尺八) is a Japanese flute which is end-blown and held vertically like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the familiar Western transverse flute. A recorder player blows into a duct, also called &#8220;fipple,&#8221; and thus has little or no control over the tuned pitch. The shakuhachi player blows as one would blow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiko</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2004-12-26/taiko/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2004 07:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word taiko (太鼓) means simply &#8220;big drum&#8221; in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums (和太鼓, &#8216;wa-daiko&#8217;, &#8220;Japanese drum&#8221;, in Japanese) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming (sometimes called more specifically, &#8220;kumi-daiko&#8221;).
Types of taiko
The nagado-daiko (長胴太鼓, long-body taiko) consists of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shamisen</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2004-12-24/shamisen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shamisen or samisen (三味線 lit: 3 taste strings) is a 3-stringed musical instrument played with a plectrum. It came from the sanshin (a close ancestor from the southernmost Japanese prefecture of Okinawa and often the main instrument in contemporary music from that area) which in turn evolved from the Chinese sanxian, and ultimately from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Taiko</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2004-12-12/japanese-taiko/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taiko music is played by large drum ensembles called kumi-daiko. Its origins are uncertain, but can be sketched out as far back as the 6th and 7th centuries, when a clay figure of a drummer indicates its existence. Chinese and Korean influences followed, but the instrument and its music remained uniquely Japanese. Taiko drums during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biwa Hoshi</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2004-12-10/biwa-hoshi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biwa, a form of short-necked lute, was played by a group of intinerant performers (biwa hoshi) who used it to accompany stories. The most famous of these stories is The Tale of the Heike, a 13th century history of the triumph of the Minamoto clan over the Taira.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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