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It was originally a sōkyoku (Japanese: 箏曲, lit. 'koto music'), a kind of chamber music with the koto playing the leading part, but nowadays the part of the koto is more widely known than the original. The music is made from six columns, hence the name, and there are exactly fifty-two beats in each column, except for the first row, which ...
A woman playing a koto, depicted in 1878 by Settei Hasegawa.. Danmono (Japanese: 段物) is a traditional Japanese style of instrumental music for the koto.The few pieces of its repertoire were mostly composed and developed in the seventeenth century, and all follow a strict form of composition.
Haru no Umi (春の海, "The Sea in Spring") is a Shin Nihon Ongaku ('New Japanese Music') piece for koto and shakuhachi composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi.It is Miyagi's best known piece and one of the most famous for the koto and shakuhachi instruments.
The band had a strong following and a lasting influence, re-forming in 2001 for a 21-city Japanese tour promoting their new album “Metal on Metal” on the VAP label. Sawai Hikaru directs the influential Sawai Sokyoku-in (Sawai Koto Academy of Music) in Tokyo. The academy was founded in 1979 by his parents Sawai Tadao and Sawai Kazue.
Okinawan folk music differs from mainland Japanese folk music in several ways. Okinawan folk music is often accompanied by the sanshin , whereas in mainland Japan the shamisen accompanies instead. Other Okinawan instruments include the sanba (which produce a clicking sound similar to that of castanets ), taiko and a sharp finger whistle called ...
Sakura Sakura played in 1959 by three artists from Tokyo's University of Art on three different Koto's (17 string, 13 string and 9 string) Link to mp3 recording of Sakura, Sakura, the Japanese lyrics with another verse, an English translation and sheet music; Sakura Sakura: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Yatsuhashi Kengyō (八橋 検校; 1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto. The name kengyō is an honorary title given to highly skilled blind musicians. Yatsuhashi, who was born and died in Japan, was originally a player of the shamisen, but later learned the koto from a musician of the Japanese court. While the ...
Yagi was a founding member of the quartet Koto Vortex with fellow Sawai apprentices Yoko Nishi, Miki Maruta and Etsuko Takezawa, [1] as well as Kokoo, a trio which performs originals and progressive rock covers exclusively on traditional Japanese instruments. She was also one-third of the avant-pop girl group Hoahio which recorded two CD's for ...