Traditional Japanese music

Painting of musicians and a dancer from the Muromachi period.
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period

Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit.'Japanese music') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from which the others were derived.[1][failed verification] Outside of ethnomusicology, however, hōgaku usually refers to Japanese music from around the 17th to the mid-19th century.[2] Within this framework, there are three types of traditional music in Japan: theatrical, court music, and instrumental.

  1. ^ Sosnoski, Daniel (2013-05-21). Introduction to Japanese Culture. Tuttle Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 9781462911530.
  2. ^ "Performing Arts Network Japan". performingarts.jp. Retrieved 2019-06-22.