Kabuki and shamisen

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Kabuki and shamisen · In 1603 Izumo no Okuni performed with her dance troupe in the dry bed of the Kamo river in Kyoto, and that is regarded as the beginning of kabuki. Where Noh is sober, kabuki is colourful and spectacular. The music revolves around the shamisen, a three-string lute with a skin-covered soundbox, which came from China via the Ryukyu Islands. In the eighteenth century nagauta grew out of it, literally long song: singing with shamisen, flute and drums.

Listening

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  Dōjōji (shamisensolo) · The Kyoto Kabuki Orchestra
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  Kanjinchō (fragment) · Kineya Rokuzaemon XIV e.a., 1840
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  Kagamijishi · The Kyoto Kabuki Orchestra

See also

• The Kyoto Kabuki Orchestra
• Kineya Rokuzaemon XIV e.a.
• Noh
• Japanese golden age and tokusatsu