Musical Instrument Of Japanese Theater

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Different types of string musical instruments. It is samisen in western japan and in several edo period sources. The shamisen or samisen also sangen is a three stringed traditional japanese musical instrument derived from the chinese instrument sanxian. The shamisen has a relatively short history in japan.

Historically japan is a country of refinement art and culture. The instruments name is derived from its original lengthone shaku 1193 inches 303 cm and eight japanese. Court music appeared there as early as the 5th century.

The shamisen was first adopted by blind musicians street performers and geisha. The shamisen quickly became the instrument of choice for many theatre forms in particular the well known kabuki theatre and bunraku the japanese puppet theatre both of which were created during the edo period 1615 1868 at the same time of which the shamisen appeared. The shamisen also called the sangen a three string lute with a fret less fingerboard about 38 inches long in jiuta style is one of the main instruments used in many japanese musical.

One of the most popular traditional japanese wind instruments is the shakuhachi. Chordophones biwa koto musical instrument ichigenkin yamatogoto sanshin shamisen kokyu. The music of japan.

Held vertically the shakuhachi has four holes on the front and one on the back and is traditionally made of bamboo. Among japanese traditional musical instruments the kokyu is the only stringed instrument played with a bow. The horsetail bow is loose and tension is adjusted with fingers at the bottom of the bow while playing.

Hachi sun 12 inches 3 cmbut it actually comes in many lengths. Its repertoire is solo and chamber music. The instrument used to ac.

Its believed to have been inspired by instruments that arrived in osaka from china in the 16th century. The japanese pronunciation is usually shamisen but sometimes jamisen when used as a suffix according to regular sound change. The construction of the shamisen varies in shape depending on the genre in which it is used.

Kokyu has a small shamisen like body and three to four strings. Better known as the japanese flute this instrument has been used by zen buddhists as a spiritual tool for meditation practices known as suizen.