Gionshōja (Japanese Traditional Music - Biwa 4 )

. Japanese Traditional Music - Gionshōja 1 Haru No Utage 7:30 2 Chikuzen Shokyoku 8:00 3 Kawanakajima 15:28 4 Arsumori 18:43 5 Gionshoja 5:29 6 Gionshoja 7:44 _____________________________________________ Release Date January 5, 1994 Duration 01:02:54 _____________________________________________ . “The liner notes (in Japanese and English) are by Hugh de Ferranti, the author of a well-researched book on the “last“ blind biwa player from the western island of Kyushu. This album has six excerpts from two Kyushu schools of biwa performance that he identifies as Satsuma and Chikuzen, by composers Tsuruta Kinshi (b. 1911), Uehara Mari (b. 1947), Enomoto Shisui (d. 1978), and Tateyama Kougo (d. 1989).“ . “This CD offers a collection of traditional Japanese pieces for the Biwa, the Japanese lute, which came to Japan from China at the end of the first millennium. The Biwa and its playi