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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 ...
Women playing the Shamisen, Tsuzumi, and Taiko in Meiji-era Japan. 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 ...
The komabue (高麗笛) ("Koma flute") is a transverse bamboo flute, a fue that is used in traditional Japanese court music. Construction
Various kinds of Yokobue. A yokobue (横笛) is a Japanese transverse flute or fue.The various types include the komabue, nōkan, ryūteki, and shinobue. [1]These flutes have an extra closed chamber (for improved timbre and tonal qualities) that extends past the chin to the left shoulder and can be used as a rest in the same way as violins are rested on the left shoulder.
An unmarried Japanese woman wearing a furisode A Japanese woman wearing a furisode at the Japanese garden. A furisode (振袖, lit. ' swinging sleeves ') is a style of kimono distinguishable by its long sleeves, which range in length from 85 cm (33 in) for a kofurisode (小振袖, lit.
The instrument is particularly noted for the embai ("salted plum seasoning"), a kind of pitch-gliding technique. [ 4 ] The hichiriki is the most widely used of all instruments in gagaku [ citation needed ] and it is used in all forms of music aside from poetry recitation.
The instrument was used to accompany songs or dances, or played solo. [1] [4] The tonkori was traditionally played by both men and women. [11] One description of traditional tonkori technique noted that a player would strum across all the strings, and then pluck a single string with his opposite hand. [12]