gagaku

Japanese music genre
Intangible music_genre Q718540
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gagaku

Summary

gagaku is a music genre[1]. gagaku draws 1,495 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #372 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • gagaku's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • gagaku is a type of East Asian court ceremonial music[4].
  • gagaku is a type of traditional Japanese music[5].
  • gagaku's Commons category is recorded as Gagaku[6].
  • gagaku's country of origin is recorded as Japan[7].
  • gagaku's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Gagaku[8].
  • gagaku's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00265[9].
  • gagaku's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/00265[10].
  • gagaku's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/00265[11].
  • gagaku's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[12].
  • gagaku's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Important Intangible Cultural Property of Japan[13].
  • gagaku's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[14].

Body

Definition and Type

gagaku's instance of is recorded as music genre[3]. Recorded subclass of include East Asian court ceremonial music[4] and traditional Japanese music[5].

Why It Matters

gagaku draws 1,495 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #372 of 1,946).[2] gagaku has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] gagaku is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Japanese Database of National Cultural Properties. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Intangible cultural heritage status Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Important Intangible Cultural Property of Japan
    Country of origin
    Instance of music genre
    Subclass of
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007555661805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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