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shigin

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use by Japan

  • woodcut: samisen player
    In Japanese music: Biwa, vocal, and folk music

    …late Tokugawa period style was shigin, the singing of Chinese poems in an intense solo style quite unrelated to the Heian rōei tradition of Chinese-based songs. Shigin was later accompanied by shakuhachi, and during the increased military spirit of the Meiji period it was combined with a posturing sword dance,…

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