Topic: The most beautiful Japanese music
+Anonymous A — 7 months ago #67,837
Japanese lyrics are so much more intelligent than all this woke western shit. It shows how cultured and civilized the Japanese are. It’s like everybody in Japan is a genius. I mean, just listen to this song, it’s amazing! How did they think up this stuff?
https://youtu.be/o8RejjkLHS8
https://youtu.be/o8RejjkLHS8
+Anonymous B — 7 months ago, 18 hours later[T] [B] #672,672
"I got a big money. I got a big titties. I got a big pussy."
·ZimbabweBoy — 7 months ago, 14 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[T] [B] #672,674
+Anonymous C — 2 months ago, 5 months later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #676,340
Too bad the music industry is headed by korean nowsdays.
+Anonymous D — 1 month ago, 1 week later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #676,433
oh yes+Chuffed !m8sJfgzmLE — 1 month ago, 4 hours later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #676,434
They had their own problems. In the 90's, every jpop singer had to go through just one guy if they wanted to make it (Tetsuya Komuro).
+Anonymous F — 1 month ago, 1 week later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #676,559
Creepy Nuts - Miragehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6yxES9oLA
versus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMIOAi9lVOo
+Anonymous G — 1 day ago, 1 month later, 7 months after the original post[T] [B] #677,062
The modern image of the "samurai" was curated by writers and artists from the Edo period, who were usually also samurai. The peace brought about by unification meant samurai who trained their whole life for war, suddenly found themselves with no wars to fight and therefore, no hostages to take for ransom or rewards based on who they killed in battle. Sure they were paid a set amount based on the amount of rice their land produces, but this means lower ranked samurai with less land found themselves becoming poorer and poorer. While merchants and craftsmen flourished in this time of relative peace and became richer and richer. Samurai didn't learn a trade to or really knew how to be merchants (they also saw it as beneath them), but they were educated. So they tried to make money by selling art, and a lot of their art was inspired by their samurai heritage. "Bushido" was born in this era, from samurai trying to create a brand that they can sell. Bushido was grabbed onto during the Meiji era as the new Meiji government used it to connect themselves to Japan's warrior past (which is ironic because the Meiji government defeated the samurai government of the Bakufu) and promote nationalistic fervor as westernization spread. This was also when Kendo was becoming popular amongst the masses, and the "way of the sword" was attached to image of the samurai and promoted by government propaganda, overwrote what samurai of the past really were. And the sword wielding samurai became more iconic than the old horseback archers.
It won't be until the 1900s when masters from the various types of martial arts across Japan came together to try and save their art from dying due to irrelevancy from modernization. This of course included Kyudo. They understood that modernization meant the practical uses for their art was gone, so they shifted focus away from war and more on ceremony and spirituality instead. They would take all the various styles of kyudo and kyujustu and try to come up with a "standard" style. They partially succeeded...modern kyudo is split into 2 main styles, reishake and bushake, with the ceremonial aspects coming from Ogasawara-ryu and the shooting coming from Heki-ryu.
TVアニメ『逃げ上手の若君』ノンクレジットオープニングムービー｜DISH//「プランA」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmpgKUcm2nI
It won't be until the 1900s when masters from the various types of martial arts across Japan came together to try and save their art from dying due to irrelevancy from modernization. This of course included Kyudo. They understood that modernization meant the practical uses for their art was gone, so they shifted focus away from war and more on ceremony and spirituality instead. They would take all the various styles of kyudo and kyujustu and try to come up with a "standard" style. They partially succeeded...modern kyudo is split into 2 main styles, reishake and bushake, with the ceremonial aspects coming from Ogasawara-ryu and the shooting coming from Heki-ryu.
TVアニメ『逃げ上手の若君』ノンクレジットオープニングムービー｜DISH//「プランA」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmpgKUcm2nI