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South Indian Regional Artist's Camp
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Kota Shivaram Karanth Trust, Udupi. South Indian Regional Artist's Camp. Click on name of artist / Click on image to enlarge! Aaloek Sharma, Indore, MADHYA PRADESH. U Bhaskar Rao, Bengaluru, KARNATAKA. Damodar L. Acharya. Damodar L. Acharya, Udupi, KARNATAKA. Girish Kulkarni, Gulbarga, KARNATAKA. Content Jyoti Alva, Haripad, KERALA. Kirti Chandak, Kuruchikuppam, PONDICHERRY. Madhu Sharma, Indore, MADYA PRADESH. JMS Mani, Bengaluru, KARNATAKA. Mukund K., Bengaluru, KARNATAKA. Peter A. Lewis. Artist Peter ...
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Valparaj - a hill station on the Anaimalai Hills of the Western Ghats
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Valparai - a hill station on the Anaimalai Hills of the Western Ghats. Valparai is a hill station located 3,500 feet sea level on the Anaimalai Hills of the Western Ghats. While major portions of the land are owned by a dozen of private tea estates, large forests, including the unique grass forests, Grass Hills, continue to houses elephants, boars, cheetah and other wild animals . The Aliyar, Sholaiyar and Nirar dams add to the unique feature of this area. The Fellow travellers seen . The Gigi way .
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Kamigata-mai " Keiin Yoshimura - Die Tanzform der Geishas
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Click on image to enlarge! NAGOYAOBI - A Workshop. A traditional Japanese dance form. Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe were known as the Kamigata area, so the dances created here are called Kamigata-mai. Drawing on 12th-century traditions established by courtesan dancers and singers at banquets in Kyoto and namely based on the dancing tradition of noh, kabuki and kyogen, but also referring to the techniques of puppet movements in bunraku, it was born and developed in the 16th century. SEE AN ANIMATED CLIP ABOUT KAM...
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Kamigata-mai - Glossary
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Japanese Art Forms - General Glossary. Noh / noh-gaku / sarugaku-noh. One of the traditional performing arts of mainland Japan. A song-and-dance drama that developed from the medieval sarugaku, the form was perfected in the Edo period (1615-1868), which marked 250 years of complete isolation from the rest of the world, during which time Japan's unique cultural heritage developed away from outside influences. The subject matter is classical, and the performers wear masks. One of the traditional performing...
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Shamisen - The Popular Three String Instrument of Japan
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Keiin Yoshimura performing Kamigata-Mai. Shamisen, the three stringed lute,. To be played with a bachi (plectrum). The shamisen is a three string instrument that came to Japan from China during the Edo Period (1615-1868). It was the time of a growing merchant class as well as a samurai class that did not have much to do since war was over, except to entertain themselves. Jiuta-mai were always changed to please special guests. Masae YOSHIZAWA is a renowned shamisen player. She graduated from Tokyo Univers...
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between yesterday and today
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