thumb|250px| street performers in Shin-Okubo Station|Okubo, [[Tokyo, advertising for the opening of a pachinko parlor.]] , also known as Japanese marching bands, and known historically as or are a type of elaborately costumed street musicians in Japan who advertise for shops and other establishments. advertise the opening of new stores or other venues and promote special events such as price discounts. In modern-day Japan, are a rare sight, having been usurped by advertising in media such as magazines, television, and the Internet.
thumb|250px| street performers in Shin-Okubo Station|Okubo, [[Tokyo, advertising for the opening of a pachinko parlor.]] , also known as Japanese marching bands, and known historically as or are a type of elaborately costumed street musicians in Japan who advertise for shops and other establishments. advertise the opening of new stores or other venues and promote special events such as price discounts. In modern-day Japan, are a rare sight, having been usurped by advertising in media such as magazines, television, and the Internet.
==Etymology== The word consists of the onomatopoeic words and to describe the sound created by the performers' instruments, with the suffix roughly equating to the English inflectional suffix "-er" in this context.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).