Product Description
DVD that introduces some of the basic forms of Japanese traditional performance. These include nagauta (long song), gidayu (narrative shamisen genre) gagaku (court music) with an introduction to each instrument such as sho, hichiriki and ryuteki and ohayshi gakki (percussion ensembles) Special feature: biwa & heikyoku (music dealing with The Tale of the Heike). Japanese only (no English subtitles) Region Code 2 NTSC.