page_title: Traditional Japanese music
hierarchical_section_title: Traditional Japanese music
caption_attribution_description: Muromachi-period music
context_page_description: Traditional Japanese music or hōgaku —meaning literally country music, as opposed to yōgaku or 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 or Shōmyō, 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, and instrumental.
context_section_description: Traditional Japanese music or hōgaku (邦楽)—meaning literally (home) country music, as opposed to yōgaku (洋楽) or 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.
caption: Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period
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