Biwa hoshi
Biwa hoshi Biwa hōshi (Japanese: 琵琶法師), also ... reciting vocal literature to the accompaniment of biwa music. Often blind, they adopted the shaved ...
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Biwa
Biwa See Lake Biwa for the lake in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. See Loquat for the fruit called biwa in Japanese. Junko Ueda playing a Satsuma-biwa A biwa (琵琶) is a Japanese short- ...
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Music of Japan
... nagauta style of singing and shamisen performance. Biwa hōshi, Heike biwa, and mōsō The biwa, a form of short-necked lute, was ... played by a group of itinerant performers ( biwa hōshi ) who used it to accompany stories ... of the Minamoto clan over the Taira. Biwa hōshi began to organize themselves into ...
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Blind musicians
... known as "Blind Ah Bing." [13] [14] Biwa Hoshi in Japan In Japan, Heike Biwa , a form of narrative music, was invented ... 1185-1333) by traveling musicians known as biwa hoshi, who were often blind. These musicians ...
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Hoichi the Earless
... legend, Hoichi was a blind minstrel (or biwa hoshi) with amazing gifts for the biwa (a kind of Japanese lute). He was ... chase and eventually found Hoichi playing his biwa furiously in the middle of the Amidaji ... Shrine - A photo of Hoichi with his biwa at Akama Shrine .
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Talk:Music of Japan
... Pipian 06:25 10 Jun 2003 (UTC) Biwa Hoshi and Blind Musicians If anybody's in ... music could check out the discussion of biwa hoshi on the blind musicians page, just to ...
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Bunraku
... was originally performed by blind monks called biwa hōshi and relates stories from the medieval ... Heike Monogatari (Tale of the Heike) to biwa (lute) accompaniment. With the development of other ... Initially, jōruri pieces continued to use the biwa as accompaniment, or singers would simply beat ...
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User:TUF-KAT/List of genres of music by region
... reggae - rocksteady - ska Caribbean - Jamaican-British Japan biwa hoshi - bon uta - bushi - komori uta - min'yo - nagauta - ondo - taiko - warabe uta biwa - kane - koto - shamisen - shakuhachi - tsuzumi - taiko enka ...
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Kwaidan (film)
... epic named Heike Monogatari. Hoichi is a biwa hoshi who plays a classical East Asian lute called Biwa. Most of the music in the movie ...
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The Tale of the Heike
... literature. It is a product of the biwa hoshi tradition of blind monks who travelled the ... countryside reciting epic poems while playing the biwa (lute). The central theme of the story ...
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