Shizuko yamamoto biography of michael

Professional Projects and Achievements

• Michael Pluznick is an acclaimed and accomplished percussionist, teacher, performer, and music producer originally from New Jersey, who has traveled the world performing, recording, and teaching various forms of percussion. He has studied drums and percussion on numerous trips with master drummers in Brazil, West Africa, Cuba, India, and Puerto Rico.
• He has been drumming since the late ‘60s, and teaching for many years. His teaching credits include stints at Sonoma State University in CA where he was a teacher and guest lecturer, University of California at Santa Cruz, and Yamaha, Japan as well as countless studios and dance and drum learning spaces around the globe.
• His album “Rhythm Harvest” was in Billboard’s “Top 20” albums for two months, and his  “Where The Rain is Born” won top honors in Electronic Musician Magazine. Michael now produces various forms of African music for special events, productions, and performances. He also accompanies dance classes and performs locally and globally.
• When not traveling to teach or study, Michael’s home base is Miami, FL
• Michael has been working with Wula Drum as Chief Marketing executive, and has taught at the Wula Drum and Dance retreat for several summers
• His new projects include his subscription drum courses,  teaching globally through online video platforms, and in person at drumming schools in Thailand, Maine, and Florida.
• Michael has over 15 million YouTube channel views and 1, videos of classes, projects, performances, and more

Michael Has Studied With:

• Bolokada Conde: West African drumming
• Mohamed Camara: West African drumming
• M&#;Bemba Bangoura: West African drumming
• Siaka Doumbia: Mali drumming
• Aruna Sidibe: Mali drumming
• Brulye Doumbia: Mali drumming
• Ami Doumbia: Mali dance
• John Amira : Afro-Haitian and Afro Cuban drumming and chants
• Nuru Dafina: Afro-Cuban music and drumming
• Simbo  Bo Shu Feng: African drumming, musi

Literature from the country of Japan

Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or lit.&#;'Chinese writing' (漢文, kanbun), a Chinese-Japanese creole language.Indian literature also had an influence through the spread of Buddhism in Japan.

During the Heian period, Japan's original kokufū culture (lit.&#;'national culture') developed and literature also established its own style, with the significant usage and development of kana (仮名) to write Japanese literature.

Following the end of the sakoku policy and especially during the increasing westernization of the Meiji era, Western literature has also had an influence on the development of modern Japanese writers, while Japanese literature has in turn become more recognized internationally, leading to two Japanese Nobel laureates in literature, namely Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburō Ōe.

History

Nara-period literature (before )

Before the introduction of kanji from China to Japan, Japan had no writing system; it is believed that Chinese characters came to Japan at the very beginning of the 5th century, brought by immigrants from Korea and China. Early Japanese texts first followed the Chinese model, before gradually transitioning to a hybrid of Chinese characters used in Japanese syntactical formats, resulting in sentences written with Chinese characters but read phonetically in Japanese.

Chinese characters were also further adapted, creating what is known as man'yōgana, the earliest form of kana, or Japanese syllabic writing. The earliest literary works in Japan were created in the Nara period. These include the Kojiki (), a historical record that also chronicles ancient Japanese mythology and folk songs; the Nihon