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Old 16-October-2003, 08:14 PM
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Don't have any links but I recall from my studies in Heian Japanese literature that Chinese and Japanese were already very distinct languages in the 10th Century. At that time aristocratic men were expected to know both Chinese and Japanese characters while women were only expected to know Japanese. Knowledge of Chinese was seen as scholarly so Chinese was not known by the Japanese peasantry. So any connection between Chinese and Japanese 'taiko' would likely be pretty distant.
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