shōmyō

Japanese Buddhist music
Intangible music_genre Q1760256
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shōmyō

Summary

shōmyō is a music genre[1]. shōmyō draws 46 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #507 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • shōmyō's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • shōmyō's subclass of is recorded as Buddhist chant[4].
  • shōmyō's subclass of is recorded as Japanese classical music[5].
  • shōmyō's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00572247[6].
  • shōmyō's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/030cx7[7].
  • shōmyō's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Shōmyō[8].
  • shōmyō's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/shomyo[9].
  • shōmyō's Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID is recorded as gf2014027089[10].
  • shōmyō's MusicBrainz genre ID is recorded as 66d59e9f-d88e-4cf1-9e4f-8b6d448d0aff[11].
  • shōmyō's Rate Your Music genre ID is recorded as shomyo[12].
  • shōmyō's Discogs style ID is recorded as shomyo[13].

Why It Matters

shōmyō draws 46 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #507 of 1,946).[2] shōmyō has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] shōmyō is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sh-my_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{shōmyō}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sh-my}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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