Zipangu (song) Zipangu (song) "Zipangu" (ジパング, "Zipangu") is Pink Lady's 11th single, and the first, after nine consecutive number 1 hits, to only reach the highest position of number 4 on the Oricon charts, and number 2 on the Japanese Music Labo charts. The single sold over a million copies. The title, Zipangu, refers to the accounts of Marco Polo on Japan. The song was also featured on the Japanese music show "The Best Ten", where it peaked at #7. A re-recorded version of the song was included on the 2-disc greatest hits release, Innovation, released in December 2010. All tracks composed
Last Moon the live performance. Having studied traditional Japanese poetry, Gackt incorporated a mix of traditional and modern speech in the lyrics, and experimented with the songs' beat, noting that traditional Japanese poetry is more suitable for an irregular beat. He also listened to the esoteric Buddhist sutras. The songs are distinctive for their blend of modern Western musical instruments and traditional Japanese instruments, like Shakuhachi, Shamisen, Shinobue, Erhu, Shō, Koto and Taiko, a kind of music called by Gackt as "Zipangu rock" from which can be sensed the country of origination. The song "Arrow" was meant for the very end of