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Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They comprise a range of string , wind , and percussion instruments.
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
A maiko (舞妓, IPA: / ˈ m aɪ k oʊ / MY-koh, Japanese:) is an apprentice geisha in Kyoto. [1] Their jobs consist of performing songs, dances, and playing the shamisen or other traditional Japanese instruments for visitors during banquets and parties, known as ozashiki .
A unique fue in that it is a double reed instrument. Gakubue: Transverse Traditional fue: Komabue: Transverse This fue is for komagaku, a type of music used for dances associated with gagaku Imperial Court music. Ryūteki: Transverse Used in Japanese music seeming to have a Chinese origin. Its sound is said to represent the ascension of dragons ...
A shakuhachi (Japanese: 尺八, pronounced [ɕakɯhat͡ɕi]) is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo.The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the shakuhachi was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the fuke shakuhachi (普化尺八).
The hichiriki is a double reed Japanese fue (flute) used as one of two main melodic instruments in gagaku music. [citation needed] It is one of the "sacred" instruments and is often heard at Shinto weddings in Japan. [citation needed] Its sound is often described as haunting. [1] [2]
Ron Korb's Asian Flute Gallery (features description and drawing of the Shinobue and other Japanese flutes); Syoji Yamaguchi's web site on Japanese transverse flutes Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine (features articles on making and playing of the Shinobue and other Japanese transverse flutes: yokobue or fue)
A lacquered nohkan. The Nohkan (能 管) is a high pitched, Japanese transverse bamboo flute, or fue ().It is commonly used in traditional Imperial Noh and Kabuki theatre. The nohkan flute was created by Kan'ami and his son Zeami in the 15th century, during the time when the two were transforming the Noh theatre forms Dengaku and Sarugaku.