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    Tanuki-bayashi (狸囃子) is a strange phenomenon of sound, told about in legends across Japan. In the middle of night, they are musical sounds like flutes...
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    middle of the night that were called "tanuki-bayashi". It was the basis for the nursery rhyme, Shōjō-ji no Tanuki-bayashi, passed down at Shōjō-ji. Fukurosage...
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    with the Shojoji no Tanuki-bayashi and Bunbuku Chagama. The "Tale of the Matsuyama Disturbance and the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki" was based on the...
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  • storytelling. The first animated "talkie" or sound film titled Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka ("World of Power and Women") was made in 1933, now a lost film it...
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