• kōshaku was abandoned and kōdan adopted. Today, after a failed attempt to revive the art in 1974, there are four schools of kōdan and only a very few performers...
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  • Zillion (Japanese: 赤い光弾ジリオン, Hepburn: Akai Kōdan Jirion, literally Red Photon Bullet Zillion, fully titled Red Photon Zillion) is a Japanese anime television...
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    Kita-Hatsutomi. As other tracks were connected, it changed its name to "Hokusō Kōdan Line" in April 1987. Over 17 years later, the railway properties of the...
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    mill on Silver Creek in 1866 and established a brick manufacturing plant. Kodan (/ˈkoʊdən/ KOH-dən) is a small unincorporated hamlet located on the northeast...
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    magazine, Yūben, (雄辯) as its first publication. The name Kodansha (taken from Kōdan Club (講談倶楽部), a now-defunct magazine published by the company) originated...
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    Kido-zeni), was small. A number of variants existed: "Narrative stories" (講談, Kōdan) "Emotional stories" (人情噺, Ninjō-banashi) "Comic stories" (落語, Rakugo) "Magic...
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  • Aadukalam Naren in supporting roles. The film's music is composed by Godwin J. Kodan, and Ajesh composed the background score. The story is based on the director's...
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    Japan Highway Public Corporation (日本道路公団, Nihon Dōro Kōdan), or JH, was a public company established after World War II to construct and manage highway...
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    predecessors in favor of a more serious approach, his school coming closer to Kōdan in methodology. In addition to this, his school worked to implement use...
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    Tokuriki Kōdanmae Station (徳力公団前駅, Tokuriki Kōdanmae-eki) is a Kitakyushu monorail station in Kokura Minami ward, Kitakyushu, Japan. The station opened...
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    among the common people, and people enjoyed rakugo, a comical story, and kōdan, a historical story, in a dedicated theater called yose. The most popular...
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  • Kōdan (講談), formerly known as kōshaku (講釈), is a style of traditional oral Japanese storytelling usually performed sitting behind a desk or lectern, and...
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  • Sarutobi Sasuke (猿飛佐助, Sarutobi Sasuke) is a ninja who appears in kōdan narrative art and fictional writings. The nickname is generally believed to have...
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    Tokyo International Airport Authority (新東京国際空港公団, Shin Tōkyō Kokusai Kūkō Kōdan) which was established on 30 July 1966. NAA was privatized on April 1, 2004...
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  • ISBN 1-59307-457-3. "Popular Works: Ah! Megami Sama/Ah! My Goddess!". Kodan Club.com. Archived from the original on May 31, 2008. Retrieved July 9,...
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    Prostitute Katsuyama Emperor Yūryaku and a Boar, 1896 安達 平七 松雪斎 銀光 講談一席読切 Kōdan isseki yomikiri 安達 吟光 大日本帝国議会之図 Dainippon shiryaku zue 頓智協会雑誌 Tonchi Kyōkai...
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  • WMAC Masters is an American television show produced by Norman Grossfeld featuring choreographed martial arts fights. It was created and produced by 4Kids...
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    circulated in society in the kōdan Saga no Yozakura (佐賀の夜桜) and the historical record book Saga Kaibyōden (佐賀怪猫伝). In the kōdan (a style of traditional oral...
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  • Gekiretsu Kodan That Split the Heavens!! Piccolo vs. Artificial Human No. 17" / "The Monster is Coming" Transliteration: "Ten o Saku Gekiretsu Kōdan!! Pikkoro...
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    Tamai During the latter half of the Edo period and the Meiji period, a kōdan (narrative tale) named "Mito Mitsukuni Man'yūki" fictionalized the travels...
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    variety of cultural activities such as ukiyo-e, kabuki, bunraku, rakugo, kōdan, haiku, and literature. The Edo period began in 1603 when Tokugawa Ieyasu...
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  • literally "person without dan". High ranking "Judoka" 5th dan to 10th dan are Kōdan-sha (高段者) "high grades" and 6th, 7th, and 8th dan have alternating red and...
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    3–13. PMID 20027914. (in Japanese) Asai, T. (1985). Nyokan Tūkai. Tokyo: Kōdan-Sha. (in French) Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi...
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    between two gambling rings, and the 1867 series Azuma no nishiki ukiyo kōdan. In 1868, following the Battle of Ueno, Yoshitoshi made the series Kaidai...
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  • It was founded in 1955 as the Japan Housing Corporation (Nihon Jūtaku Kōdan) to address the country's housing shortage due to post-war urbanisation...
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    Kido-zeni) was small. A number of variants existed: "Narrative stories" (講談, Kōdan) "Erotic stories" (人情噺, Ninjō-banashi) "Comic stories" (落語, Rakugo) "Magic...
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    Nambiar 2010 Kola Kolaya Mundhirika Mathrubootham 2011 Ponnar Sankar Nellian Kodan Sabash Sariyana Potti JR 2012 Thuppakki Major V. Ravichandran 2015 Thunai...
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    Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) in 1703, and it has been told in kabuki, bunraku, Rōkyoku, Kōdan or Rakugo. In 1927, Jirō Osaragi serialized the story in the Tokyo Nichi...
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    iterations were constructed for various forms of entertainment, such as Kōdan, Rōkyoku, Rakugo, and other varieties. Over the years, a notable convergence...
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    1597) was a samurai lord during the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama period. In kōdan, he is known as Yasuda Sakubei. Kunitsugu was born in Yasuda, Mino Province...
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