List of Living National Treasures of Japan (performing arts)
List of Current Designated Individuals ( Performing Arts ) -- Music
Table:
Name

Born

Category

Subcategory

Year Designated

Reibo Aoki (青木鈴慕)

1935

Music

Shakuhachi

1999

Hōzan Yamamoto II (二代目山本邦山)

1937

Music

Shakuhachi

2002

Shōin Yamase (山勢松韻)

1932

Music

Koto

2001

Fumiko Yonekawa II (二代目米川文子)

1926

Music

Koto

2008

Kisaburō Kineya XV (十五代目杵屋喜三郎)

1923

Music

Nagauta (Vocals)

1997

Tetsuo Miyada (宮田哲男)

1934

Music

Nagauta (Vocals)

1998

Masatarō Imafuji (今藤政太郎)

1935

Music

Nagauta (Shamisen)

2013

Kisaku Katada III (三代目堅田喜三久)

1935

Music

Nagauta (Narimono)

1999

Komanosuke Takemoto (竹本駒之助)

1935

Music

Gidayūbushi (Vocals)

1989

Tomoji Tsuruzawa (鶴沢友路)

1913

Music

Gidayūbushi (Shamisen)

1998

Shibun Uji VII (七代目宇治紫文)

1933

Music

Icchūbushi (Vocals)

1999

Bunchō Uji (宇治文蝶)

1935

Music

Icchūbushi (Shamisen)

2001

Setsuko Yamabiko (山彦節子)

1920

Music

Katōbushi (Vocals)

1994

Senko Yamabiko (山彦千子)

1946

Music

Katōbushi (Shamisen)

2009

Senroku Miyazono II (二代目宮園千碌)

1944

Music

Miyazonobushi (Vocals)

2007

Wakasanojō Tsuruga 11 (三代目鶴賀若狭掾)[1]

1938

Music

Shinnaibushi (Vocals)

2001

Nakasaburō Shinnai (新内仲三郎)

1940

Music

Shinnaibushi (Shamisen)

2001

Ichihadayū Tokiwazu (常磐津一巴太夫)

1930

Music

Tokiwazubushi (Vocals)

1995

Eiju Tokiwazu (常磐津英寿)

1929

Music

Tokiwazubushi (Shamisen)

1992

Eijudayū Kiyomoto (清元清寿太夫)

1935

Music

Kiyomotobushi (Vocals)

2003

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Traditional Japanese music or 邦楽 ( hōgaku ) , meaning literally ( home ) country music ( as opposed to 洋楽 ( yōgaku ) - Western music ) is the folk or traditional music of Japan . Japan 's Ministry of Education classifies Hōgaku 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 . Outside of ethnomusicology , however , Hōgaku usually refers to Japanese music from around the 17th to the mid-19th century . Within this framework , there are three types of traditional music in Japan : theatrical , court music ( called gagaku ) , and instrumental .
The shakuhachi ( Japanese : 尺八、しゃくはち , pronounced [ ˌʃakʊˈhatʃi ] ) ( Chinese : 尺八 ; pinyin : chǐbā ) is a Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal , end-blown bamboo-flute . It was originally introduced from China into Japan in the 7th century and reached its peak in the Edo period . ( 17th-18th century ) . The oldest shakuhachi in Japan is currently stored in Shōsō-in , Nara . The shakuhachi introduced into Japan changed its form and scale many times after that , and the present shakuhachi was completed in the Edo period in the 17th century . The shakuhachi is traditionally made of bamboo , but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods . It was used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen ( 吹禅 , blowing meditation ) . The instrument is tuned to the minor pentatonic scale .
Hōzan Yamamoto ( 山本 邦山 , Yamamoto Hōzan ; October 6 , 1937 - February 10 , 2014 in Ōtsu , Shiga prefecture ) was a Japanese shakuhachi player , composer and lecturer . Yamamoto started playing the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi from the age of nine . He was initially taught by his father and then by Chozan Nakanishi . After graduating from Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Studies in 1958 , he participated in UNESCO 's World Folk music Festival and graduated from Seiha Music College in 1962 . Together with kotoplayer Shinichi Yuize and Tony Scott he recorded the album Music for Zen Meditation in February 1964 . After formation with Reibo Aoki and Katsuya Yokoyama of the widely acclaimed Shakuhachi Sanbon Kai trio in 1966 , he electrified the conservative traditional scene by applying his talents to a variety of crossover collaborations . These have led him to work with such world-renowned musicians as Ravi Shankar , Helen Merrill , Gary Peacock and Karl Berger , but also with flute colleagues Jean-Pierre Rampal and Chris Hinze . In 1980 he was invited to the renowned Donaueschingen music festival with his trio . He recorded the music to the Samurai Reincarnation film and the album Masters of Zen : Shakuhachi & Organ ( together with Wolfgang Mitterer at the organ ) which he composed for his instrument . Through the 1970s and 1980s to the present he has led the shakuhachi world receiving innumerable honors , including Japanese Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Education Ministerial awards for his performances , recordings ( numbering in the hundreds ) and compositions . He served as lecturer at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and as head of the Hozan-kai Shakuhachi Guild . In 2002 he became designated Living National Treasure of Japan .
The koto ( 箏 ) is a Japanese stringed musical instrument derived from the Chinese zheng , and similar to the Mongolian yatga , the Korean gayageum , the Vietnamese đàn tranh , and the Sundanese kacapi . The koto is the national instrument of Japan . Koto are about 180 centimetres ( 71 in ) length , and made from kiri wood ( Paulownia tomentosa ) . They have 13 strings that are usually strung over 13 movable bridges along the width of the instrument . There is also a 17-string variant . Players can adjust the string pitches by moving the white bridges before playing . To play the instrument , the strings are plucked using three finger picks ( thumb , index finger , and middle finger ) .
Nagauta ( 長唄 ) , literally long song , is a kind of traditional Japanese music which accompanies the kabuki theater . It was developed around 1740 . Influences included the vocal yōkyoku style used in noh theater , and instruments included the shamisen and various kinds of drums . The shamisen , a plucked lute with three strings , is a very popular instrument in nagauta . Nagauta performers generally play the shamisen and sing simultaneously . Nagauta is the basis of the Nagauta Symphony , a symphony in one movement composed in 1934 by composer Kosaku Yamada . Meriyasu is considered a subset of nagauta .
Jōruri ( 浄瑠璃 ) is a form of traditional Japanese narrative music in which a tayū ( 太夫 ) sings to the accompaniment of a shamisen . As a form of storytelling , the emphasis is on the lyrics and narration rather than the music itself . According to Asai Ryōi , the first to have ever employed the shamisen during his storytelling instead of the biwa was chanter Sawazumi . The story he narrated on that occasion was Jōruri Jū-ni-dan zōshi , one of the many existing versions of the Jōruri Monogatari , which tells the tale of the tragic love between Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Jōruri-hime . Following this event , every tale sung to the accompaniment of a shamisen is associated with Jōruri .