num_pages: 321
description: This expanded version of the 1991 edition adds a discussion of poor blind musicians since the start of the Edo period (or Tokugawa period, 1603-1868), an outline of the musical history of Tsugaru, and an analysis of the development of the Tsugaru-jamisen style. Translation of Chikuzan's autobiography has footnote and orthographic revisions.
language: English
title: The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians,Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan
titlecomplete: The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians,Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, No. 24)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Harmonie Park Press