Japan Music Word Search

About this book

> Written and produced in Japan by a Japanese author — Aki Wakamatsu, published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC. This is not a mass-produced puzzle book: the 600-word pool was researched and written in Japan, drum by drum, string by string. > > 300 LARGE-PRINT PUZZLES. 600 WORDS. EVERY DRUM, STRING AND SONG OF JAPAN. > > Most word-search books give you 100 puzzles about anything. This one gives you 300 — and every single word belongs to the music of Japan. > > Travel Japan's soundscape one puzzle at a time: the great odaiko and the rope-laced shime drums, with the hides and tacks that make them; the three necks of the shamisen and the buzz of its sawari string; koto schools, tunings and the Six Sections; biwa epics and the chanting of the puppet stage; shakuhachi monks and their breath techniques; flutes of bamboo, clay and stone, in all ten festival tunings; the imperial court's gagaku, oldest orchestra in Asia; the chant and hayashi of noh, the hidden music room of kabuki; herring songs of Hokkaido and loach songs of Shimane; bon dance songs, Okinawan island songs and the epics of the Ainu; the children's songs and school songs everyone in Japan can hum; enka bars, karaoke rooms and idol glow-sticks; temple bells struck 108 times, shrine maidens' dances, poetry chanted at full voice; singing crickets, station melodies and the recorder in every school bag — in big, comfortable large-print 15×15 grids. > > Learn while you play: every hidden word comes with a one-line note — which island sings it, which wood makes it, why the drum has ears. By Puzzle 300 you will hear Japanese music like a local. The 600-word pool was built for this book: not one grid word is recycled from the earlier volumes of this series — where those books used the general names, this one uses drum types, neck sizes, tunings, techniques, piece names and the hometown songs themselves. > > Made to be solved: all 300 puzzles are computer-verified in two independent ways, so every hidden word appears exactly once — no printing mistakes, no impossible grids. Full highlighted solutions are printed at the back. > > For paper and for pen: solve the paperback with a pencil, or open the Kindle Scribe edition and circle words right on the page. > > The perfect gift for taiko fans, shamisen and koto lovers, festival-goers, karaoke singers, and anyone planning a trip to musical Japan. > > Inside: 300 puzzles · 30 music themes · 600 words with notes · 3,000 word placements · verified unique solutions · full answer key