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Tsuchitori Toshiyuki
is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist and music historian. He is also sometimes known as Toshi Tsuchitori. Biography Tsuchitori was born in 1950 in Tadotsu, Kagawa. He was introduced to music through percussion, and began playing festival taiko at a young age. As a teen, he played modern jazz in Osaka. In the early 1970s, he started his career as an avant-garde jazz percussionist and came to collaborate with Kondō Toshinori, Takagi Mototeru, Oki Kano, and others. He has also performed with dancers such as Ōno Kazuo and musicians from outside the country including Derek Bailey and Milford Graves. Beginning in 1976, Tsuchitori composed theatrical scores for the works of Peter Brook. In 1981, while studying native folk music from Asia and Africa, he met the shamisen player Momoyama Harue, the last disciple of . In 1987, he and Momoyama established the record label in Gujō-Hachiman, Gifu Prefecture as a base for their activities. From 1988 to 1998, Tsuchitori produced and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadotsu, Kagawa
270px, Shorinji Kempo head dōjō is a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 22,124 in 10365 households and a population density of 270 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Geography Tadotsu is located in central Kagawa Prefecture. It borders the Sanuki Plain to the south and the scenic Setonaikai National Park to the north. The inhabited islands of Takamijima and Sanagishima of the Shiwaku Islands are located within the town borders. Neighbouring municipalities Kagawa Prefecture *Marugame * Zentsūji * Mitoyo Climate Tadotsu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa'') with very warm summers and cool winters. Some precipitation falls throughout the year, but the months from April through October have heavier rain. The average annual temperature in Tadotsu is . The average annual rainfall is with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Vic
The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop in 1970. Kwame Kwei-Armah has been Artistic Director since February 2018, succeeding David Lan. History In the period after World War II, a Young Vic Company was formed in 1946 by director George Devine as an offshoot of the Old Vic Theatre School for the purpose of performing classic plays for audiences aged nine to fifteen. This was discontinued in 1948 when Devine and the entire faculty resigned from the Old Vic, but in 1969 Frank Dunlop became founder-director of The Young Vic theatre with ''Scapino'', his free adaptation of Molière's ''The Cheats of Scapin'', presented at the new venue as a National Theatre production, opening on 11 September 1970 and starring Jim Dale in the title role with designs by Carl Toms (decor) and Maria Björnson (costumes). Initially part of the National Theatre, the You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soeda Azenbō , Japan
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Soeda ( ja, 添田) may refer to: People * Go Soeda (born 1984), Japanese tennis player * Takashi Soedaborn 1993), Japanese football player Places * Soeda, Fukuoka is a town located in Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2016, the town has an estimated population of 9,802 and a density of 74 persons per km². The total area is 132.10 km². Geography Climate Soeda has a humid subtropical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiji (era)
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent great power, influenced by Western scientific, technological, philosophical, political, legal, and aesthetic ideas. As a result of such wholesale adoption of radically different ideas, the changes to Japan were profound, and affected its social structure, internal politics, economy, military, and foreign relations. The period corresponded to the reign of Emperor Meiji. It was preceded by the Keiō era and was succeeded by the Taishō era, upon the accession of Emperor Taishō. The rapid modernization during the Meiji era was not without its opponents, as the rapid changes to society caused many disaffected traditionalists from the former samurai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payrignac
Payrignac (； oc, Pairinhac) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Lot department The following is a list of the 313 communes of the Lot department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Cougnac Cave References Communes of Lot (department) {{Lot-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools by hominins, 3.3 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene, 11,650 cal BP. The Paleolithic Age in Europe preceded the Mesolithic Age, although the date of the transition varies geographically by several thousand years. During the Paleolithic Age, hominins grouped together in small societies such as bands and subsisted by gathering plants, fishing, and hunting or scavenging wild animals. The Paleolithic Age is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools. Other organic commodities were adapted for use as tools, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jōmon Period
The is the time in Japanese history, traditionally dated between 6,000–300 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. The name "cord-marked" was first applied by the American zoologist and orientalist Edward S. Morse, who discovered sherds of pottery in 1877 and subsequently translated it into Japanese as ''Jōmon''.Mason, 14 The pottery style characteristic of the first phases of Jōmon culture was decorated by impressing cords into the surface of wet clay and is generally accepted to be among the oldest in the world. The Jōmon period was rich in tools and jewelry made from bone, stone, shell and antler; pottery figurines and vessels; and lacquerware.Imamura, K. (1996) ''Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia''. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press It is often compared to pre-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mino Province
was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture. Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north, and Shinano to the east, and Ise, Mikawa, and Owari to the south. Its abbreviated form name was . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, Mino was ranked as one of the 13 "great countries" (大国) in terms of importance, and one of the "near countries" (近国) in terms of distance from the capital. The provincial capital and ''ichinomiya'' were located in what is now the town of Tarui. Historical record "Mino" is an ancient place name, and appears in ''mokkan'' wooden tags from the ruins of Asuka-kyō, Fujiwara-kyō, and other ancient sites, but using the ''kanji'' "三野国". Per the ''Kujiki'', there were originally three separate countries in Mino, centered around what is now Ōgaki, Ōno, and Kakamigahara. Each had its own ''Kuni no miyatsuko'', and together with Motosu (in eastern Gifu) and Mugetsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hachiman, Gifu
was a town located in Gujō District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. History The town was established as a town in 1889. On March 1, 2004, Hachiman, along with the towns of Shirotori and Yamato was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan. Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan. Japanese his ..., and the villages of Meihō, Minami, Takasu and Wara (all from Gujō District), was merged to create the city of Gujō. Notes External links Official website of Gujō Dissolved municipalities of Gifu Prefecture Gujō, Gifu {{Gifu-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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