"Shōdō" is the fortieth single by

B'z are a Japanese rock duo, consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba, 佐伯明『B'z ウルトラクロニクル』ソニー・マガジンズ、2003年。新型光�B'zはなぜ ...

, released on January 25, 2006. This song is one of B'z many number-one singles in

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charts. The title track was used as the seventeenth opening theme of ''

Case Closed ''Case Closed'', also known as , is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' since January 1994, with its ch ...

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Track listing

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Music video

* The title ''Shōdō'' shares the same pronunciation as

shodo also called is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. Written Japanese was originally based on Chinese characters only, but the advent of the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries resulted in intrins ...

, the Japanese art of calligraphy. The music video features Japanese calligrapher Sōun Takeda writing the title in

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

Certifications

References

B'z performance at Oricon

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shodo 2006 singles B'z songs Case Closed songs Oricon Weekly number-one singles Songs written by Tak Matsumoto Songs written by Koshi Inaba