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Zipangu is a 1980 work for string orchestra by Canadian composer Claude Vivier. Inspired by traditional kabuki theatre, it is considered by many to be the composer's most aggressive and "unforgiving" piece, as it features a plethora of extended techniques for strings (i.e. snap pizzicato and bow overpressure ) and denser harmonic ...
Cipangu (auch Cipango, Zipangu usw. geschrieben) war der Name für Japan in Europa während des Mittelalters . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Etymologie. 2 Geschichte. 3 Weblinks. 4 Einzelnachweise. Etymologie. Der Name Cipangu leitet sich ab von der Wu -Aussprache der Landesbezeichnung 日本国 ( jap. Nihon-/Nippon-koku, Pinyin: Rìběnguó ).
Zipangu is considered by many to be the composer's most aggressive and "unforgiving" piece, as it features a plethora of extended techniques for strings (i.e. snap pizzicato and bow overpressure) and denser harmonic content atop a complex melody, similar to the string compositions of Krzysztof Penderecki.
12. Blood Sucker: Legend of Zipangu (夜刀の神つかい, Yato-no-kami Tsukai) is a Horror-themed Japanese manga series written by Saki Okuse (奥瀬 サキ, Okuse Saki) and illustrated by Aki Shimizu . It is twelve volumes long and was serialized in Gentosha Comics' Comic Birz magazine, and licensed by Tokyopop in the West. The manga is ...
“Japan, the Land of Gold.” How True Is the Old Legend? : NIPPONIA No. 45. Special Feature. “Zipangu” was actually a land of silver, not gold! In 1397, the Muromachi Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had the Temple of the Golden Pavilion constructed in the Japanese capital, Kyoto.
Florence.3 Moreover, "Zipangu" appears in a form closely resem-. bling that of the Florence atlas map on the large world map (measur-. ing 108 by 190 centimeters), signed by Martellus, which was pre-. sented in 1962 to the Yale Library.4 These two maps, dated approxi- mately 1488-90, represent the first attempt to portray Japan in any.
15. Juni 2008 · In the second half of the 9th century, the Muslim geographer Ibun Khurdādhbeh repeated reports from China saying that, in the golden land of Wāqwaq (Wakoku = Japan), dog chains and pet monkey collars were made of gold. Stories about Wāqwaq later evolved into the legend of Zipangu, the land of gold.
