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		<title>Chitose Hajime</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Chitose Hajime (元ちとせ, Hajime Chitose?, born January 5, 1979) is a singer from Japan. She is from Amami Ōshima and sings in a style particular to that region, with distinctive falsetto effects. Because of this, it is said that her voice has a relaxing effect that has been observed in electroencephalograms taken from the brains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OHanami Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not the usual J-Pop stuff you might be use to listening to but a tradition while viewing sakura blossoms no less.

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		<title>Traditional Instruments: Biwa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biwa (琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, and a close variant of the Chinese pipa. The biwa is the chosen instrument of Benten, Goddess of music, eloquence, poetry, and education in Japanese Buddhism. 
The biwa derives from a Chinese lute called pipa, which itself derives from a Persian/Middle Eastern lute called barbat (whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sakura Sakura &#8211; piano version</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking one of the favorite oldies and transforming it into a beautiful piano piece. 

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		<title>Tokyo Summer Festival</title>
		<link>http://music.3yen.com/2006-07-07/tokyo-summer-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tokyo Summer festival is a month long event (July 5 &#8211; August 6), with stage performances, exhibitions and concerts in venues all over Tokyo. It was created 22 years ago by pianist Kyoko Edo, composer Maki Ishii and musicologist Takashi Funayama. Each year there is a different theme for the festival. This year, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kouhaku Uta Gassen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Men versus Women! Red versus White in the ULTIMATE MUSICAL SHOWDOWN!
Well, actually it&#8217;s what you watch if you&#8217;re not cool/rich/healthy enough to go out on New Year&#8217;s Eve. I fell into the last category. I had a pretty bad case of the flu and couldn&#8217;t even stand up, let alone eat the traditional soba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koto</title>
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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>
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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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