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  • woodcut: samisen player
    Japanese music
    / Buddhist music

    …influential system was the so-called go-in hakase, attributed to Kakui (b. 1236) of the Shingon sect. Under that method the five notes of each of three octaves of a pentatonic scale were indicated by the angle of a short line, rather like the hands on a clock. Variations of that…

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    …influential system was the so-called go-in hakase, attributed to Kakui (b. 1236) of the Shingon sect. Under that method the five notes of each of three octaves of a pentatonic scale were indicated by the angle of a short line, rather like the hands on a clock. Variations of that…

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