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がふ 楽府
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1. Music Bureau (Han dynasty; government office responsible for collecting folk songs)​Historical term
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2. yuefu (genre of Chinese poetry composed in a folk song style)​
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3. Yue fu​Yue fu are Chinese poems composed in a folk song style. The term originally literally meant "Music Bureau", a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental organization(s) originally charged with collecting or writing the lyrics, later the term yuefu was applied to later literary imitations or adaptations of the Music Bureau's poems.
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楽府 【がくふ】

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