楽

musical note

Music

theme; motif; melodic subject

Music

phrase

bandsman

compositional rules; musical grammar

Colloquial

easy subject; (university) course that anyone can pass; easy A

celebrated musician

celebrated musician; master musician

musical passage or section

ancient type of koto with 13 strings used in Gagaku music

music stand

paradise

carefree land; paradise

shoptalk; matters incomprehensible to outsiders

inside joke; private joke

philharmonic society; society of the friends of music

raku ware; hand-moulded, lead glazed earthenware pottery fired at low temperatures, esp. used in tea ceremony (molded)

Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)

optimistic view of life; optimism

talent for music

optimist

Proverb

after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad

closing day of a show

musical world

comfortable rest or sleep