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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 ...
It is a compound of two words: shaku (尺) is an archaic unit of length equal to 30.3 centimetres (0.99 ft) and subdivided in ten subunits. hachi (八) means "eight", here eight sun, or tenths, of a shaku. Thus, the compound word shaku-hachi means "one shaku eight sun " (54.54 cm (21.47 in)), the standard length of a shakuhachi.
Sōran Bushi. Sōran Bushi (ソーラン節) is one of the most famous traditional songs and dance (min'yō) in Japan. It is a sea shanty that is said to have been first sung by the fishermen of Hokkaido. The commonly known version of the song and dance is called Nanchū Sōran (南中ソーラン) and was created in 1991 at the Wakkanai Minami ...
Gagaku (雅楽, lit. "elegant music")[1] is a type of Japanese classical music that was historically used for imperial court music and dances. Gagaku was developed as court music of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and its near-current form was established in the Heian period (794–1185) around the 10th century. [2][3] Today, it is performed by the ...
Problems playing this file? See media help. " Sakura Sakura " (さくら さくら, "Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms"), also known as " Sakura ", is a traditional Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of cherry blossoms. It is often sung in international settings as a song representative of Japan. [1] Contrary to popular belief, the ...
Jiuta, as well as nagauta, is a typical form of Utaimono (歌いもの, lyrical music) in traditional Japanese music. Jiuta traces its oldest origins to shamisen music, and is the predecessor of a number of later shamisen pieces, having greatly influence the development of the genre throughout the Edo period; it can be said that both jōruri ...
A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [ [:ja:浄瑠璃]]; see its history for attribution. Jōruri (浄瑠璃) is a form of traditional Japanese narrative music in which a tayū (太夫) sings to the accompaniment of a shamisen. [1] Jōruri accompanies bunraku ...
Nagauta. Sake Cup by Santō Kyōden, 1783–1784, a meriyasu. Nagauta (長唄, literally "long song") is a kind of traditional Japanese music played on the shamisen and used in kabuki theater, primarily to accompany dance and to provide reflective interludes. [1]