understanding. The biwa (琵琶 - Chinese: pipa), a form of short-necked lute, was played by a group of itinerant performers (biwa hōshi). The root of Biwa music was...

rivers. A few landlocked populations also exist in lakes in Japan such as Biwa. Original wild populations in Taiwan became extinct in 1968 due to pollution...

Several related instruments are derived from the pipa, including the Japanese biwa and Korean bipa in East Asia, and the Vietnamese đàn tỳ bà in Southeast Asia...

(track 10) Masakazu Yoshizawa – shakuhachi (track 2) Osamu Kitajima – koto, biwa (track 2) Bob Ezrin – production (tracks 1–4, 6, 7, 9, 10); recording (tracks...

contains Japan's highest mountain, Mount Fuji, and its largest lake, Lake Biwa. Most of Japan's industry is located in a belt running along Honshu's southern...

consumption in Japan. Funazushi is a rare type of narezushi prepared near Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture. Eighteen generations of the Kitamura family have been...

[citation needed] In the farming village Nakanogō, on the shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province in the Sengoku period, Genjūrō, a potter, takes his wares...

approximately 0.5% of Japan's total area is reclaimed land (umetatechi). Lake Biwa is an ancient lake and the country's largest freshwater lake. Japan is substantially...

Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny (2023), Zhi Xia Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love (2023), Kai Kikyo Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window...

management (BIWA-GMP). That plan recommends retaining only 596.41 ha (1,473.8 acres) as strictly protected wildlife reserves, or 5.3% of the original BIWA, and...

magnitude scale (ML) or the moment magnitude scale (Mw), or the surface wave magnitude scale (Ms) for very old earthquakes. The present list is not exhaustive...

traditional Japanese instruments in his music, and even took up playing the biwa—an instrument he used in his score for the film Seppuku (1962). In 1967,...

mesmerising movie presence". The Age. Retrieved 29 November 2021. Kwan, Biwa. "Fans pay tribute to legendary actor David Gulpilil after he wins top NAIDOC...

reconciliation'". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 January 2021. Khan, Biwa. "Australia's national anthem changed to reflect 'stories of the many First...

in the 13th century, including Gagaku, Shōmyō Buddhist chanting, and the biwa hōshi. A group of consultants also helped translate lyrics written in English...

1874), and then to Kyoto (1877) and Otsu (1880) at the southern end of Lake Biwa. A line was constructed from Tsuruga, on the Sea of Japan, to Ogaki (connecting...

differing versions passed down through an oral tradition by biwa-playing bards known as biwa hōshi. The monk Yoshida Kenkō (1282–1350) offers a theory as...

brings poverty and other such misery unless placated with baked miso. Biwa-bokuboku A biwa inhabited by a spirit. Boroboroton A possessed futon that comes to...

producer orchestrator keyboardist Instrument(s) Keyboards, satsuma-biwa Years active 1995–present Labels Wave Master Website http://www.takahito-eguchi.com/...

2020 – via Twitter. "tweet". Retrieved 25 April 2020 – via Twitter. Kwan, Biwa (11 April 2020). "Greg Mortimer: Australian, New Zealand passengers go into...

Nakamura Shidō II, Yūichi Kimua, Kaoru Kobayashi Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love Hideki Takeuchi Fumi Nikaido, Gackt, Anne Watanabe, Kataoka...

(13–16 ft). A wave was reported along the coast of Lake Biwa, slamming into homes and washing away many residents in Nagahama. The wave destroyed much...

built Mt. Fuji using nearby soil. The area from which he dug became Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. The myth also claims that the many lakes in Japan...

from acting, modeling is Claire's primary job. She is signed under Free Wave Talent, an agency that represents foreign models. She currently is the main...

Bibcode:2014PhP....16..146B. doi:10.1007/s00016-014-0134-8. S2CID 121952683. Biwas, Arun Kumar (2010). "Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science:...

it largely disappeared. In the early 17th century, Ōtsu, a port on Lake Biwa just east of the imperial capital of Kyoto, lay at a famous cross-roads for...

Jinpachi) Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai The head of a band pirates controlling Lake Biwa. He loves drinking sake, women, and his ship. He once rejected the fact that...

financial troubles. She learned playing the biwa at an early age and moved to Osaka in 1920, where she joined the Biwa Girls' Operetta Troupe. Tanaka's first...

Limnology: Lake and river ecosystems. San Diego: Academic Press. ILEC/Lake Biwa Research Institute [Eds]. 1988–1993 Survey of the State of the World's Lakes...

when they try to kill him. In the Akatsuki, Itachi is partnered with Jūzō Biwa. 456 43 "The Darkness of the Akatsuki" Transliteration: "Akatsuki no Yami"...