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{{nihongo|'''''Shōmyō'''''|声明}} is a style of [[Japan]]ese [[Buddhist chant]], used mainly in the [[Tendai]] and [[Shingon]] sects.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Cambridge history of Japan |author=John Whitney Hall|year= 1988|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=0521223520|url= https://books.google.com/books?visbn=0521223520&id=x5mwgfPXK1kC&pg=RA4-PA497&lpg=RA4-PA497&dq=Shomyo+buddhism&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html}}</ref> There are two styles: ''ryokyoku'' and ''rikkyoku'', described as difficult and easy to remember, respectively.<br />
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Shōmyō, like [[gagaku]], employs the [[Yo scale]], a [[pentatonic scale]] with ascending intervals of two, three, two, two, and three semitones.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.uwgb.edu/ogradyt/world/japan.htm|chapter=Japanese Music|title=Cross-Cultural Communication: World Music|publisher=University of Wisconsin|place=[[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]]|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313144427/http://www.uwgb.edu/ogradyt/world/japan.htm|archivedate=2008-03-13}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Hill, Jackson (1982). Ritual Music in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism: Shingon Shōmyō, Ethnomusicology 26 (1), 27-39 <br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.sukothai.com/Xebec-sakurai.html What Appears Through Chanting]: Tendai Shomyo Ryokyoku<br />
*http://jtrad.columbia.jp/eng/s_tendai.html<br />
*http://www.eastvalley.or.jp/eng/kyoku.html<br />
*http://sound.jp/tengaku/Shichseikai-e/shomyo-e4.html<br />
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