Traditional Music- Japan

traditional classical music:

Michio miyagi

kimio eto

tadao sawai

Shinichi yuize

katusmasa takas ago

kohachiro Miyata

Yasuda shinpu

goro Yamaguchi

Isshi Yamada

Takahashi chikuzan

gagaku:

kunaicho gakubu

reigakusha ensemble

kunaicho gakubu

ono gagaku-kai

koto emperial court music orchestra

toshiko yonekawa

Kiyoshi yamaya

shakuhachi flute:

-kohachiro miyata- shakuhachi, the Japanese flute

-Yasuda shinpu- music of the shakuhachi

-goro yamaguchi- a bell ringing in the empty sky

kabuki:

ensemble nippoia

Tsugaru-jamisen:

Takahashi chikuzan

Yoshida brothers

taiko:

daihachi oguchi

seido Kobayashi & oedo sukeroku taiko

za ondekoza

Okinawa music:

Tomoko uehara

rinken band

tinktink

nonesuch albums:

-traditional musical instruments of Japan

-koto music of Japan

-Shinichi yuize- Japanese koto classics

-katsumasa takasago- flower dance (Japanese folk melodies)

smithsonian folkways albums:

-folk music of japan

-Traditional Folk Songs of Japan

-traditional folk dances of japan

-Folk Music of the Amami Islands, Japan

-Japanese Buddhist Ritual

-Isshi Yamada: Koto: Music of the One-string Ichigenkin

-ensemble o-suwa-daiko, under the direction of oguchi daihachi: Japan o-suwa-daiko drums

-Japan: shomyo buddhist ritual- dai hannya ceremony

-Japan: koishimaru izutsuya: master of the kawachi ondo epics

-folk music of the amami islands, Japan

artists included:

kogi Fukushima

eikichi kazari

mayo kaseda

umeno Tajima

Yoshi sakae

yekimitsu Takeda

s. Nishiyama

Japan: semiclassical and folk music

artists included:

toshimura goroji

Matsuo Keiko

ueno Kazuko

notomi judo

notomi Haruhiko

amada kiichi

Hoshi tenshin

irimura yuki and the aoi-ren groun

akama shinsui

yamairi tsuru

edobayashi hozonkai