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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 ...
Another recognized music form from Japan is noise music, also known as Japanoise when referring to noise music made by Japanese artists. Some of the most prominent representatives of this form include Merzbow, Masonna, Hanatarash, and The Gerogerigegege. As befits the challenging nature of the music, some noise music performers have become ...
Japanese traditional dance describes a number of Japanese dance styles with a long history and prescribed method of performance. Some of the oldest forms of traditional Japanese dance may be among those transmitted through the kagura tradition, or folk dances relating to food producing activities such as planting rice ( dengaku ) and fishing ...
Pages in category "Japanese styles of music" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Akishibu-kei;
Pages in category "Japanese traditional music" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Rakugo, a form of yose. Yose was a popular form of spoken theatre in the Edo period. The term is the shortened form of Hito yose seki (人寄せ席, roughly "where people sit together"). Towards the end of the Edo period, there were several hundred theatres, about one per district (町, chō).
Japanese popular culture includes Japanese cinema, cuisine, television programs, anime, manga, video games, music, and doujinshi, all of which retain older artistic and literary traditions; many of their themes and styles of presentation can be traced to traditional art forms.
A form of shadow theater (写し絵) that emerged in the Edo period, using magic lanterns to project images onto screens. It was an early form of moving picture entertainment in Japan that combined storytelling with visual effects. [8] [9] [10]