The hyoshigi clapping you hear at night is a vestige of this world, a nightly nod to those early firefighters who protected their city with little more than bravery and bare hands. In the rhythmic ...

The vibrant dress and bombastic action that characterizes kabuki theater are thought to have taken inspiration from the kabukimono, a class of ex-samurai who were prominent in the 16th century ...

The wooden clappers or hyoshigi, which are hung around the neck, can also be found in other traditional events in Japan: In kabuki, a traditional form of theatre, the hyoshigi are struck to signal the ...

The beat of “hyoshigi (two pieces of wooden bars),” which announce the beginning of the performance, go through me and her and penetrate throughout all audiences. Later, I learned that the cracking ...

Beginning with the katsugi-okedo taiko, the TAIKO-1 can produce sounds of different Japanese drums, hyoshigi 拍子木 wood clappers and other percussion instruments. Image: Social Wire Co Ltd. Roland's ...

Le Gentil Garcon holds aloft a pair of hyoshigi, or clapping sticks, he procured from Kyoto in Japan and rhythmically strikes it. “Long ago, this musical instrument was used to gather kids by a ...

As the dust settles on South Africa's Rugby World Cup 2019 success, thousands leave Japanese shores - but what an experience it's been... Japan. The birthplace of sushi and sumo wrestling ...

Kamishibai men would secure their butai – a wooden structure, half picture frame, half theatre stage – to the back of their bicycle, and would use wooden clappers (hyoshigi) to beckon their ...

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