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The heike shamisen compared with a medium-sized, or chuzao shamisen Plectrums for a minyo and heike shamisen. The heike shamisen (Japanese: 平家三味線), is a Japanese musical instrument, member of the shamisen family. Like its other counterparts, the heike shamisen has three strings, a slender neck, a body taut with skin, and it is plucked ...
The heike shamisen (平家) is a shamisen particularly fashioned for the performance of the song Heike Ondo, a folk tune originating from Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The neck of the heike shamisen is about half the length of most shamisen, giving the instrument the high range needed to play Heike Ondo.
Heike Ondo is accompanied by a kind of shamisen called the Heike Shamisen, which has a shorter neck than most shamisens in Japan, and thus, a higher range. The narrative is quite long and is rarely ever sung in its entirety; key excerpts are chosen for shorter performances.
Kouta (小唄, lit. ' little songs ') is a type of traditional Japanese music that originated in the red-light districts of Edo period (1603–1868) Japan, before developing further and experiencing wider popularity in the geisha districts that succeeded many red-light districts.
Heike Shamisen; J. Jōruri (music) T. Tomimoto-bushi; Tsugaru-jamisen This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 06:50 (UTC). Text is available under ...
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By the Kamakura period (1185–1333), the heike-biwa had emerged as a more popular instrument, a cross between both the gaku-biwa and mōsō-biwa, retaining the rounded shape of the gaku-biwa and played with a large plectrum like the mōsō-biwa. The heike-biwa, smaller than the mōsō-biwa, was used for similar purposes.
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