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n. A unit of measure in feudal Japan, the amount of rice needed to feed one person for a year.
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KOKU (100.3 FM) – branded as Hit Radio 100 – is a commercial contemporary hit radio (CHR) radio station licensed to Hagåtña, Guam. It is owned and operated by Moy Communications Inc.
As on October 2, 2012 KOKU has a new sister station as KMOY, which has hot adult contemporary as "Cool FM 92.7".
Kokū (虚空) or Koku is a honkyoku, a solo "original piece" of Japanese Buddhist origin for the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute. The title "Kokū" is often translated as "empty sky".
According to legend 1, "Kokū" is one of the three original shakuhachi pieces, along with " Mukaiji" and " Kyorei". It was composed by Kyochiku, the Zen priest who founded the Myoan temple in Kyoto, Japan in the 13th century. Kyochiku fell asleep while practicing shakuhachi inside the temple at Ise, Mie and upon awakening, transcribed the sounds in his dream into the three pieces "Kokū", " Kyorei", and " Mukaiji".
"Kokū" has been recorded by many shakuhachi artists, including Watazumi Doso, Yokoyama Katsuya, Nishimura Koku, Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin, Okuda Atsuya, Phil Nyokai James and Alcvin Takegawa Ramos.
Usage examples of "koku".
The giant, Koku, for that was his name, smiled in a good-natured way, reminding one of an overgrown boy.
Out of the temporary building came Koku, the giant, bearing in his arms a big rock, of peculiar formation.
Leaving Koku and Rad to collect the wires and firing apparatus, there being no danger now, as no explosive was left in the shack, Tom made his way back to the house.
This he took out to the big lot, and having made a miniature tunnel with some of the sample rock, and having put some of the explosive in a hole bored in the big chunk Koku carried, Tom fired the charge.
He told Koku to get ready to leave for New York at once, where he and the giant would join Mr.
Tom and Koku went on with their hurried preparations to leave for New York.
Shortly before Tom and Koku departed for the railroad station, where they were to take a train for New York, Mary Nestor returned home.
There was more laughter, and even Koku grinned, though it is doubtful if he knew what about, for he could not understand much unless Tom spoke to him in a sort of code they had arranged between them.
Titus when he and Tom sat in the comfortable hotel rooms, while Koku stood at a window, looking out at what to him were the marvelous wonders of the New York streets.
But to Koku, who, since he had been brought from the land where Tom Swift had been made captive, had gone about but little, everything was novel, and he did not know at what to look first.
But Koku carried the anchor where it ought to go, and from then on he was looked up to with awe and admiration by the sailors.
Tom told, modestly enough, how he had come to get Koku in his escape from captivity, but Mr.
As for Koku he was taken in charge by the sailors and found life forward very agreeable.
But Koku, thrusting the little men aside, grasped with one hand what two of them had tried in vain to lift, and set it on the back of mule or llama.
Tom found it so, for he slipped over some pieces of rock, and would have fallen had not Koku held him up.