古典音楽

こてんおんがく

classical music

古典楽器

こてんがっき

Japanese classical musical instruments

楽楽

らくらく

comfortably, easily

名古屋音楽大学

なごやおんがくだいがく

Nagoya College of Music

楽

らく

comfort, ease

古

ふる いにしえ

antiquity, ancient times

極楽極楽

ごくらくごくらく

It's absolute heaven, It's sheer bliss

楽市楽座

らくいちらくざ

free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

千古万古

せんこばんこ

remote antiquity, ancient times, the remote past

古典古代

classical antiquity

古訓古事記

こくんこじき

Kojiki with Ancient Readings (by Nagase Masachi, 1803)

俗楽

ぞくがく

popular music, common people's music (as opposed to court music)

宴楽

えんらく

merrymaking, partying

弦楽

げんがく

music for strings, string music

楽想

がくそう

melodic subject, theme, motif

遊楽

ゆうらく ゆうがく

amusement

勝楽

しょうらく かちらく

Cakrasamvara, Samvara, Supreme Bliss (tantric Buddhist deity)

洋楽

ようがく

Western music, European music

耽楽

たんらく

indulging in pleasure, giving oneself up to enjoyment